In 2015, when he was still writing a weekly “Astronomy” column, in The Guardian, J.K. Obatala published a long serial, entitled “Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Africa”. The article ran for 10 weeks; but he did not mention J. Robert Oppenheimer.
These books, movies, and pieces of pop culture are a guide to the atomic era Oppenheimer unleashed. Recommendations include ‘American Prometheus,’ ‘The Day After Trinity,’ ‘Fail Safe,’ ‘Duck and Cover,’ ‘Godzilla,’ and more.
One of the last surviving eyewitnesses from the effort to build the first atomic bomb gives his impressions of the Manhattan Project’s driving force: J. Robert Oppenheimer.