I hope you all don't mind this shift in focus - it relates to Oppenheimer. There is a sub-text to the film that I won't go into here; if you saw Nolan's Dunkirk you'll have some clues regarding how he represents historical events of great magnitude.
Meanwhile, I am offering for viewing my film on the making and use of the atomic bomb; it includes in interviews with Gar Alperovitz and Martin Sherwin (co-author of Oppenheimer screenplay) as well as dramatizations of the decision making processes. Notably also the dramatized testimony of Leo Szillard the physicist who convinced Einstein to write to Roosevelt and initiate the Manhattan Project.
https://portside.org/video/2023-07-21/lifting-fog-bombing-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI from Allan Siegel,
On 2023. 07. 24. 13:25, David Garcia
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Amidst all the current Oppenheimer hype, I appreciated Zia Haider Rahman, the author of *In the Light of What We Know* - ' who in a recent tweet declared:
"I hate Oppenheimer a teeny tiny little bit for his knowingly bastard translation of the B Gita (he was a Sanskritist). An accurate translation would be "I am become Time, destroyer of worlds" so much better, quite profound really"
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