Sounds like a Christopher Nolan protagonist.
Nolans film will focus on the genius scientists role in its development.
As the war and development progressed, the scientists needed more space.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the formation of the Manhattan Project on Dec. 28, 1942.
Also known as Project Y, the Manhattan Project was formally established on Jan. 1, 1943.
Oppenheimer was appointed scientific director.
Oppenheimer named it Trinity, and it had the explosive power of 20,000 tons of TNT.
One month later, the bomb was used twice on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
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Those nuclear explosions ended the war, but Oppenheimer had mixed feelings.
The Soviet Union detonated an atomic bomb in 1949.
Oppenheimer strongly opposed work on developing the hydrogen bomb.
Oppenheimer failed to report it until August.
The FBI furnished Oppenheimers files to his enemies.
The theoretical physicists phones were tapped, his office and home were bugged, and his mail was opened.
Oppenheimers security clearance was revoked 32 hours before it was set to expire in June 1954.
Oppenheimer died of throat cancer in 1967.
Christopher Nolan is a courageous director who has never stopped taking risks, even after achieving mainstream success.
A Nolan film is a brand, like a Martin Scorsese movie or a Hitchcock picture.
Nolan is an auteur, writing and completely controlling every aspect of his films.
Nolan is probably one of the few directors with the guts to make a bomb.
Nolan is best telling human stories with strong characters who are troubled by epic challenges and moral conundrums.
Oppenheimer was called the father of the Atom bomb.
