This Oppenheimer article contains spoilers.
Oppenheimeris more than just 2024sapparent Best Picture favoriteand one-half of the Barbenheimer movement that shatteredmodern box office expectations.
More importantly,many of those moviesoften intentionally alter or exclude certain details for the sake of storytelling.
Understanding how complicated the filmmaking process can be is the key to understanding how such decisions are ultimately made.
Perhaps more importantly, he was a long-time friend of (and frequent political/professional rival to) Oppenheimer himself.
So why isnt Neumann in the movie?
Those closest to the blast certainly witnessed the most obvious immediate consequences of the occurrence, though.
U.S. officials later tried to publicly explain that the event was the result ofa munitions explosion.
Few of those events may be more fascinating than the suspected murder ofJean Tatlock.
However, the specific events of Tatlocks death have long been debated.
Theodore Hall began working on the Manhattan Project whenhe was only 18.
Those concerns reportedly fueled his decision to eventually start relaying information about the project to Soviet officials.
Oppenheimer is streaming now on Peacock.