Enlarge / Cillian Murphy gives an Oscar-worthy performance as the “father of the atomic bomb” in OppenheimerYouTube/Universal Pictures
I’ll admit I had my doubts when I first heard that director Christopher Nolan was planning to make a film about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the research effort to develop the first atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project. This is one of the most well-documented periods of 20th century American history, after all, and there have already been so many books, films, and TV series about the race for the bomb, of varying quality. (As always, let
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