Watched Oppenheimer last night. Stunning and intense. Only complaint is that the musical score sometimes got in the way of the dialogue. It was difficult to get the gist of some conversations.
Complicated guy, to put it simply. Otherworldly brain power, intense situation. It might make one realize that most of us skate through life having done little of significance, or at least nothing that rises to the level of what Oppenheimer and his team accomplished, as they developed a world-altering technology before the Germans did.
I wasn’t aware of much of the detail, including the back-biting by Lewis Strauss- don’t know what kind of license they took with that whole dynamic. The project gave birth to great moral dilemmas, compromises, and it might have one wondering if Oppenheimer ever found peace.
We as citizens of Earth have lived with an uneasy peace ever since, but I don’t blame Oppenheimer for that. He was given a job to do in a highly charged, perilous moment, and he did it. He was a complicated, fallible, thoughtful, heroic figure. But his efforts—and those of his team—have left us walking on egg shells, constantly playing with fire, dependent every day on competent people doing the right things, which includes monitoring our aging nukes, and keeping the bad players from blowing us all to smithereens.
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