'American Prometheus,' which won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 2005 and inspired Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, is back on the charts.
Martin Sherwin and Kai Bird’s sweeping biography about the physicist dubbed the father of the atomic bomb. As Nolan is known for his epic and often extreme films, it makes sense that the prolific director was determined to adapt the explosive story, which had been optioned numerous times in Hollywood but never made it past development.
The narrative takes a dramatic turn with the onset of World War II, when Oppenheimer was appointed as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, a top-secret government initiative aimed at developing the first atomic bomb. His leadership and organizational skills were instrumental to the project, which culminated with the devastating nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 200,000 Japanese people.
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