J. Robert Oppenheimer was an immensely complex figure, and the movie's based on a biography of him. While the movie is historically accurate in many ways, there are a few bits of fiction mixed in.

The July 21 theatrical release of the film “Oppenheimer,” focused on the life of a prominent American nuclear physicist, should help to remind us of how badly the development of modern weapons has ...

Oppenheimer met with some atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha in Hiroshima. He said he believes that they understand the difference in the values of former US President Harry Truman, who ...

and Gary Oldman (as President Truman), Oppenheimer is a long shot commercially in a season when serious fare fares poorly. Younger audiences may be inclined to regard history as boring or irrelevant.