Oppenheimer Had Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie Oppenheimer, but they haunt the film — literally.

The eponymous physicist and “father of the atom bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, is plagued by visions of the terrible destruction wrought by the weapon he helped create, even as he gives a victory speech to the assembled community at Los Alamos after the successful attack on Hiroshima.