Viewpoints
Opinion

‘Oppenheimer’’s Crucial Messages for Today

‘Oppenheimer’’s Crucial Messages for Today
J.R. Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) views the atomic explosion, in “Oppenheimer.” Universal Pictures
Wesley J. Smith
|Updated:
0:00
Commentary

“​Oppenheimer” is the best film Hollywood has produced since “The Godfather.” The movie brilliantly recounts how the theoretical physicist and genius J. Robert Oppenheimer led the urgent U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II that culminated in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and inducted the world into the Atomic Age.

Wesley J. Smith
Wesley J. Smith
Author
Award-winning author Wesley J. Smith is host of the Humanize Podcast (Humanize.today), chairman of the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council. His latest book is “Culture of Death: The Age of ‘Do Harm’ Medicine.”
Related Topics