Nolan's Oppenheimer

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It's a really fascinating story. I thought the movie Fat Man and Little Boy was really interesting even though it didn't get the greatest reviews. Not sure if this one is worth a trip to the theater for me, but it's a definite watch at some point.
 

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Just saw a story that they just reversed the decision to suspend his security clearance. I wasn't aware of the story, but it sounds like some of the stuff he was accused of was a sham.
He was a member of the communist party as we're a bunch of the people he associated with so he got pulled into the "red scare" stuff.
 

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Hot Take:
Most evil individuals throughout history would accomplish very little of their devastating plans without the complicity of morally ambivalent scientists and engineers.

I'll hang up and listen.
That's what the story is about. They knew what they were creating and had a lot of debate about it. It's not a simple solution. It was only a matter of time before someone had the weapon, so who knows where the world would be if the US had taken a moral stand and refused to develop nuclear weapons. I don't know if it would be better, worse, or even if we'd still exist at all, I just know it would be a lot different.
 

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That's what the story is about. They knew what they were creating and had a lot of debate about it. It's not a simple solution. It was only a matter of time before someone had the weapon, so who knows where the world would be if the US had taken a moral stand and refused to develop nuclear weapons. I don't know if it would be better, worse, or even if we'd still exist at all, I just know it would be a lot different.

Germany's program was already ahead of the US in the late 1930s. The Manhattan project wasn't just for the creation of the atomic bomb, the program was also to combat and prevent the German atomic program from succeeding. Many smaller operations were carried out for this exact purpose in WW2. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_heavy_water_sabotage.
 

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If Nolan is making does he come from another dimension to build the bomb? Or maybe it is shown sideways being that he already did backwards
 
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