Charles Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan called Robert Oppenheimer “the most important person who ever lived.” It’s hard to know how he would have responded.
Pleased with the recognition, modest demurral, or a caustic retort? What we do know: he certainly felt his work and the significance of it — and felt the weight of it.
As he described it: “We knew the world would never be the same.” He spent the rest of his life trying to share that insight with the world.
It’s possible that the re-awakening of the story, the re-telling of the myth of Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan and the cast could tip the scales, ever so slightly in the direction of survival — at this critical, unstable time in the world.
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