Opinion: 'Oppenheimer' only makes it harder to control nuclear weapons (via latimesopinion )
The movie “Oppenheimer” hypes a serious issue of national survival, and in the process makes matters much, much worse. By mythologizing J. Robert Oppenheimer , the movie sets back efforts to control these dangerous devices.
Nuclear weapons have always been overhyped. All this “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” stuff is great showmanship, but it’s hardly realistic. There’s a reason no military officers came forward to angrily denounce President George H.W. Bush when he declared that the United States wasfrom Europe. The military had done the simulations, they’d studied the data, and they apparently concluded — just as President Eisenhower apparently did in Korea, the French did in Vietnam, and Colin Powell did in the Gulf War — that nuclear weapons are too clumsy to use in battle.
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