Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A couple weeks back, I revealed how Robert Oppenheimer, despite deep reservations about the script (“idiotic”) and its many falsehoods, signed a release for MGM in 1946...
Did Truman Ever Read John Hersey’s Hiroshima?
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Seventy-seven years ago this week, an article by novelist and war reporter John Hersey (photo above), titled simply "Hiroshima," occupied the entire feature section of...
Truman Got Actor Fired Off First Atomic Film
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A bizarre, yet revealing, postscript to President Truman re-writing of the first movie about the atomic bomb, from MGM, The Beginning or the End – covered here...
When Truman Re-Wrote the First Movie on the Atomic Bomb
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. In late-October 1946, a near-final version of the first Hollywood drama depicting the creation and use of the atomic bomb was screened for an elite audience at the...
Reactions to John Hersey’s ‘Hiroshima’ Shook the Pro-Bomb Narrative
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Earlier this week, we looked at the genesis of John Hersey’s famous “Hiroshima” article for The New Yorker (which appeared 77 years ago this week) and book. Now here is...
That Crucial Scene in Oppenheimer: Only One Bomb Victim, and She is American
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. There are hints that perhaps the very welcome media and intertube obsession with serious issues raised by Oppenheimer is drawing to a close. How else to explain that...
More from ‘Oppenheimer’ Script, Now Published: A Fictional Laugh Line – and Missing Victims
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. As I hinted yesterday, I will now return to offering a few more notes, over several days, on the full script for Oppenheimer just published in paperback and, from the...
77 Years Ago: John Hersey Exposed Hiroshima Truths to the World
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. I’ll be returning to my notes on the newly-published paperback version of Christopher Nolan’s screenplay for Oppenheimer tomorrow (here was my first report last week)....
Oppenheimer Hero: Making a Mountain Out of a Hill
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Today we present, for the first time, a guest contribution from someone I’ve known, if from a distance, for quite some time. Gene Dannen posted what follows as a...
Oppenheimer Script Published, New ‘Downwind’ Film Streams Today
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. The much-praised screenplay by Christopher Nolan for his Oppenheimer has now been published in paperback, although out of stock at Amazon most days. I received my copy...
