J. Robert Oppnheimer's younger brother, Frank Oppenheimer, has a central role.
Christopher Nolan's latest film,"Oppenheimer," is, like the title suggests, about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist largely credited as the"father of the atomic bomb."
While J. Robert Oppenheimer made a name for himself in the U.S. through groundbreaking research on theoretical physics, Frank Oppenheimer worked on various nuclear physics projects throughout the country before joining his brother at the Los Alamos lab on the Manhattan Project in 1945, which J. Robert Oppenheimer directed during World War II.Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures
"The echoing went on and on, and — but I think the most terrifying thing was this really brilliant purple cloud, black with radioactive dust, that hung there, and you had no feeling of whether it would go up or would drift towards you," Frank told science historian Charles Weiner in acatalogued by the American Institute of Physics."The fact that it worked — one knew immediately that it would work. It was really so very surprising that it worked.
"One quote from Frank is that when he heard the radio announcement that they dropped a bomb over Hiroshima, his very first thought was, 'Oh, thank God it worked,'" actor Dylan Arnold, who plays Frank in the Oppenheimer movie,
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