Christopher Nolan is the idol of moviegoers all over the world. The director who has created mesmerizing films like Inception, Prestige, Interstellar, Tenet and Dark night Trilogy. Science lover Nolan's next film 'Oppenheimer' will hit theaters worldwide on July 21 next year. As the name suggests, the theme of the film is the life of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is known as the father of the atom bomb. The creation of the atomic bomb and the Second World War will be the background in this. Today is Hiroshima Day. Today, there will be worldwide discussions about the nuclear bomb and its consequences. Robert Oppenheimer is a name that cannot be avoided in any of these discussions.
Oppenheimer was born on April 1902, 22 to a Jewish immigrant couple in New York City, USA. After graduating from Harvard University, he later sailed to England and began research at Cavendish University, the prestigious University of Cambridge. It was 1925. A time when nuclear research was developing. The young Oppenheimer then continued his research at the University of Göttingen. Here, Oppenheimer had the opportunity to collaborate with later physicists such as Max Born and Niels Bohr. The Born-Oppenheimer Method, which he developed with Max Born, is one of the most famous contributions to physics.
In 1930, the political developments in Europe caught Oppenheimer's attention. Oppenheimer opposed Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitic Nazi policies. Oppenheimer supported the arguments of scientists such as Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard that the Nazis, who gave great importance to scientific and technological research, could use nuclear power to create weapons of mass destruction.
In 1939, Nazi Germany carried out its infamous invasion of Poland. During the same period, Oppenheimer was selected for the Manhattan Project, a US project to build the atom bomb. In 1942, he was assigned to lead the science department of the Manhattan Project.
There were many scientists who escaped Hitler's occupation and came to America in the Manhattan Project. Naturally opposed to Hitler, they actively tried to build the atomic bomb even before the Nazis developed it. It was Oppenheimer's strong leadership and scientific knowledge that led to the realization of the atomic bomb, which cost US$2 billion.
Soon the bombs fell on Germany. The Second World War broke out. But Oppenheimer was shaken by the lethality of the atomic bomb and the damage it caused. He strongly advocated that nuclear weapons programs should not be developed further. He resigned from the Manhattan Project.
But he remained on the advisory board of the Atomic Energy Commission. In 1949, Oppenheimer strongly opposed the hydrogen bomb project proposed by the US. But this opposition led to accusations that he was a communist and a supporter of the Soviet Union. The US excluded him from several major nuclear programs. Oppenheimer died of throat cancer in 1967 at the age of 63.
Oppenheimer will be released by Universal Pictures on July 2023, 21 in IMAX, 70 mm, and 35 mm.[1][51] Given the film's budget and marketing costs, Variety stated that the film would need to gross at least $400 million worldwide to break even.[52]
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