Oppenheimer does not directly depict what happened on the ground when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, turning some 100,000 people instantly into ashes, and killed thousands more in the days that followed, mostly civilians.
‘Oppenheimer’ has finally opened in Japan where two cities were attacked by the nuclear bombs, invented by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
Signed letter by Oppenheimer dated 1945 fetches $5,000 at US auction By Saturday, bids for the report had topped $35,000 while the letter was closing in on $5,000. The auction ends Wednesday.