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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

Robert Oppenheimer: how cinema has depicted this icon of the nuclear age

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28 Nov 2023

Oppenheimer was the blockbuster movie of 2023 featuring a stellar cast of Hollywood A-listers. But as Sidney Perkowitz reminds us, many other movies, books and stage performances have examined the moral and political implications of the Manhattan Project too

In the summer of 1960 I set off for the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, having just fi

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Sidney Perkowitz is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus, Emory University, US. Among his latest books are Science Sketches: the Universe From Different Angles, and Physics: a Very Short Introduction. His writing recently received the Andrew Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics for “bridging the physics community to the arts and humanities”.
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