I saw the movie Oppenheimer last weekend. I’d really been looking forward to it because

–All the hype.

–I know a lot about the story because of my previous incarnation as an editor and administrator of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in the 1980s and 90s. I knew people who knew J. Robert Oppenheimer as Oppy.

–plus I’ve been to Hiroshima three times.

–plus last week I read Kai Bird and the late Martin Sherwin’s 900-page book, American Prometheus, on which the movie is based.

–I was glad to see nuclear weapons getting the attention they deserve once again. (Can we please now just get rid of them.)

So maybe it’s to be expected that I was disappointed by the movie. I found it boring and confusing, a deadly combination. Continue reading →