It is no surprise that a Hollywood filmmaker might exaggerate a bit when promoting his movie, so Christopher Nolan’s recent claim that Robert Oppenheimer is “the most important person who ever lived” is not unexpected.
I do think it is wrong, though, as Nolan’s movie demonstrates that the Nazis began their atomic bomb project within months of the discovery of nuclear fission, and of course, the Russians detonated their own bomb just four years after we did.Was Oppenheimer the only person who could have completed the first nuclear bomb as fast as he did? Maybe. But if Gen. Leslie Groves hadn’t picked Oppenheimer for the project, he would have picked someone else.
And we are lucky that it was Americans and not the Nazis or Soviets who discovered it first. However troubled the decision to use the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was, the authors of the Holocaust and the Holodomor would have had no moral qualms about using the bomb over and over and over again. As noted throughout the movie, Oppenheimer believed the demonstration of the atomic bomb would end all wars because people would see how awful they were and then never use them again.
Lasting from 1914 to 1918, World War I killed about 40 million people. Just 20 years later, between 1939 and 1945, another 80 million would die.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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