Radioactive Facts

Did you see Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer? MGM’s dramatization of the Manhattan Project, with Hume Cronyn as J. Robert, was released only 18 months after the end of WWII. It opens with a whopper of a fib.

Fact check:

• https://thereveal.substack.com/p/the-beginning-or-the-end-oppenheimer
• https://theappendix.net/issues/2012/12/box-office-bomb-the-beginning-or-the-end-1947
• https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/at-the-bradbury/2023-july/movie-history