The drama explores many dimensions of Oppenheimer’s story including his recruitment by General Groves (who led the Manhattan Project that produced the first atomic bombs), his relationships with his lover, Jean Tatlock and wife Kitty, the building and testing of the atomic bomb and the scientists’ reaction to the devastating use of their invention at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where up to 250,000 people died.ĬONTINUE READING BELOW 3. Sam Waterston’s nuanced performance portrays Oppenheimer as a brilliant but troubled figure. Opening credits show a secret tape playing Oppenheimer’s conversations (the FBI file on Oppenheimer, opened in 1941, eventually ran to 7,000 pages) and the series builds to the fateful security hearing. The BBC’s BAFTA-winning drama series is also interested in how Oppenheimer’s involvement in left-wing 1930s politics shaped his fall from grace after the second world war. The trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023). An agent’s report notes that “a kind of invisible light … radiates from his presence”, as if he takes on the troubling qualities of the radioactive materials with which he works. Chevalier presents Bloch as intoxicated by the force of his own personality and power over others. ![]() Seduced by Bloch’s charisma, Ampter is drawn toward the political causes Bloch advocates. ![]() The novel tells the story of a young security agent, Mark Ampter, sent to infiltrate the circle of Sebastian Bloch (a thinly disguised version of Oppenheimer). In the McCarthyite atmosphere of the early 1950s, he could no longer work at US universities. Oppenheimer’s delay in reporting this conversation to US security services and inconsistencies in his testimony about it, were key – along with his opposition to the hydrogen bomb – to the 1954 hearing that saw his security clearance revoked.
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