Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was Trinity, the first, test-run atomic explosion in the New Mexican desert. The fallout is still with us, literally and figuratively, 79 years later. This is the story of Trinity, based on declassified documents.
A rift in thinking about who should control powerful new technologies sent Robert Oppenheimer and his brother Frank on diverging paths. For one, the story ended with a mission to bring science to the public.
One film can’t do it all, but I can’t help feeling that the retelling of this story, as it stands, is a missed opportunity.
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The inventor of the atomic bomb, the subject of Christopher Nolan’s new film, was the chief celebrity victim of the national trauma known as McCarthyism.
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