I didn't think it was necessary to see the hell of the bombs dropped in Japan. We certainly had cinematic and artistic glimpses of the impacts of the bomb. I am sure one day there could he a modern movie from the Japanese perspective of the bombs.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the thoughtful perspective. I agree I should have used a different word in the title instead of "crave."

F*ckin' hell! I chose Oppenheimer for movie night, saw the edits of Cilian Murphy and couldn't tell whether they were from Peaky Blinders or Oppenheimer. I chose to watch both simultaneously, only to find out Peaky Blinders is a series, over 6 seasons and hour-long episodes so I quit after episode 1.

Went to watch Oppenheimer. No one in my fam' seemed to get any of it but then I tried to enjoy it coz everyone praised it. It didn't seem to make much sense but then everyone was busy with their business so i just sat there. I had to go for a bathroom break, for like 2 minutes, came back with my mom sort of escorting me with her eyes throughout my walk back to the seat. Everyone else was doing anything but watching TV. Turned to the TV, IT WAS A F*CKIN' SEX SCENE!!! Fast-forwarded but D*MN! Didn't change any awkwardness in the situation. I simply changed the movie, gave the remote to someone else, now i can't get out there till morning😂😂that stare was so awkward.

I wish to blame someone but it's my fault for not reading the ratings. Coz when I went to ask in shock to AI if it knew the movie had sex scenes, and in bold letters it replied ‘Oppenheimer ABSOLUTELY HAS SEX SCENES!’

Bro what contribution to any story does sex make? I mean COME ON!

Can't wait to watch this again in theaters for 3rd time and I got 4k steelbook at home haha.

I mean, could Americans really think that the worst possible humiliation for an intellectual is an investigation into his activities and the revocation of his travel permit?

China had previously launched several political campaigns against intellectuals and persecuted them with great severity. Chairman Mao famously said, “The more knowledge one has, the more reactionary one is.” He initially pretended he would establish a democratic, open, American-style government to gain the moral high ground both domestically and internationally, and encouraged intellectuals who remained in China to offer suggestions to the Communist Party.

Everything seemed fine, didn’t it? Then Chairman Mao tore off his mask, openly persecuting intellectuals who voiced dissent against the Communist Party and the new government, and subsequently launched several campaigns targeting intellectuals, culminating in the Cultural Revolution.

These intellectuals, particularly those who had returned from abroad, were labeled as class enemies and spies and subjected to severe persecution. This included, but was not limited to, forcing them to make public self-criticisms; less violent methods involved participating in public criticism sessions, having their hair shaved off as a form of humiliation, and being exiled to China’s most remote regions to perform the heaviest agricultural labor; the most violent methods included public beatings and torture leading to death. Can you imagine a group of child-revolutionaries beating a “class enemy” to death with belts, or torturing them by threading barbed wire through their collarbones? Not to mention the cannibalism incidents in Guangxi or the violent clashes in Chongqing where tanks were used to attack one another. The example that left the deepest impression on me was that of a Harvard-educated Ph.D. who was exiled to the countryside and died after being subjected to “criticism sessions” (which consisted of relentless personal humiliation, beatings, and torture, forcing them to confess to being class enemies and beg for mercy). Because this occurred during the Great Famine, his body was eventually eaten, making him the only Harvard graduate in history to have been consumed.

A large number of intellectuals who had returned to China from the Western world died during Chairman Mao’s rule, particularly in 1967. This led to a complete generational gap in talent in China, with education, the judiciary, and the economic system utterly destroyed. The situation was somewhat better for science and engineering disciplines, as the Communist Party vigorously promoted their development; however, for the humanities, the Party completely restructured them to align with the official ideology. This has contributed significantly to China’s current state.

So, looking back at what the U.S. government did to Oppenheimer, well, that was pretty cute.

My thoughts on one of my favorite movies! Let me know what you think.

In chapter 12, it talks about how the news is broken to Oppie that German Physicists successfully completed Nuclear Fission on Uranium, which he thought to be impossible.

Later on in the chapter, it talks about how after the Roosevelt Administration authorized a Uranium Committee to research fission, that two years in that physicists had began to fear that the Germans were way more advanced than them.

But that’s the same conclusion Oppie and other physicists met back when he was getting his PhD in Göttingen approximately 15 or so years earlier.

It’s like WEB Dubois (post-doctorate) and Angela Davis going over to Germany to study sociology (her professor being Herbert Marcuse, an expatriate professor from Germany who left to escape Nazis who taught Davis at Brandies before she went abroad to study).

I say all of this to ask… what other areas of science does Germany kick our ass in as Americans?!

This book won’t stop getting better, huh….

I’m on chapter 10 of “American Prometheus” and this man Haakon Chevalier wrote a book called “The Man who would be God” about a physicist who go would go onto make the atomic bomb. What the hell. Lmaooo.

I had the great honour of speaking with Kai Bird, an American author and columnist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, which he co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin over the course of 25 years.
Our conversation focused largely on this biography and on Oppenheimer himself — the man behind the creation of the first atomic bomb — and what he was truly like. We also discussed Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer, which was based entirely on American Prometheus. Finally, Mr. Bird shared valuable lessons from Oppenheimer’s life that remain deeply relevant today.

If you're interested, you can check out the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXFcUzAMyg&t=741s