While the movie was to my reading relatively accurate, what struck me most was how little was devoted to the context of the pacific war and
why it was desperate to build that bomb, despite that Germany was (or almost) defeated.
The horrors of the island wars against the japanese, and more to the point their immense almost religious commitment to opposing the US was a big factor in developing and using the bombs.
It wasn’t a “should I build this bomb and kill n civilians, it was a real consideration and waying of lives, both civilian and military.
Dan Carlin’s podcast about the pacific war kinda opened my eyes how dire the circumstances were really. Even more so it must have looked immensely so through the lenses of propaganda at the time … while the movie did touch a bit on all of that, it didn’t seem to me it did it justice, making it harder to empathize with Oppie, which in my mind is kinda a shame. Otherwise great movie!
The horrors of the island wars against the japanese, and more to the point their immense almost religious commitment to opposing the US was a big factor in developing and using the bombs.
It wasn’t a “should I build this bomb and kill n civilians, it was a real consideration and waying of lives, both civilian and military.
Dan Carlin’s podcast about the pacific war kinda opened my eyes how dire the circumstances were really. Even more so it must have looked immensely so through the lenses of propaganda at the time … while the movie did touch a bit on all of that, it didn’t seem to me it did it justice, making it harder to empathize with Oppie, which in my mind is kinda a shame. Otherwise great movie!