Oppenheimer (2023): What Really Happened? History vs the Movie

Did Oppenheimer really poison an apple? Did Einstein really talk to him by a pond? Did the scientists fear the bomb would set the atmosphere on fire? Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars — we check what really happened: Cambridge and Göttingen, Berkeley and Jean Tatlock, General Groves and Los Alamos, the Trinity test, "now I am become Death", Truman's "crybaby scientist", Lewis Strauss and the 1954 security hearing — and our verdict: REAL or REEL? 0:00 Intro 0:52 Young Oppenheimer 1:36 The poisoned apple 2:08 Göttingen and the new physics 2:26 Berkeley, politics and Jean Tatlock 3:02 Fission and Lise Meitner 3:23 Einstein's letter and General Groves 4:05 Los Alamos 4:48 The scientists: Fermi, Teller, Feynman 5:26 Spies and the Chevalier affair 5:47 Little Boy and Fat Man 6:09 Setting the atmosphere on fire? 6:48 Trinity 7:31 "Now I am become Death" 8:25 Hiroshima and Nagasaki 9:27 Meeting Truman 9:44 Princeton and the H-bomb 10:19 Lewis Strauss 10:44 The 1954 hearing 11:43 Strauss rejected by the Senate 12:03 The Fermi Award and the end 12:47 Making the film 13:38 Legacy 14:13 The verdict 📚 Sources K. Bird & M. Sherwin, American Prometheus (2005) · R. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) · In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer (AEC transcript, 1954) · US DOE order vacating the 1954 decision (2022) · R. Monk, Inside the Centre (2012) ▶ Next: The Last Samurai (2003) — was there really a last samurai? 🔔 Subscribe to Real or Reel — history vs. the movies. #Oppenheimer #ChristopherNolan #History