Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. – Charles Dickens In Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer, the physicist who directed...
The Guilty A-Bomb Scientist Who Committed Suicide
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. It’s in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. – Charles Dickens On this day in 1945, two days out from the attack on Hiroshima: – On...
When FBI Bugged Oppenheimer As He Talked About First ‘A-Bomb Movie’
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Three days until Hiroshima Day. Continuing my daily Countdown to Hiroshima over at my Pressing Issues blog, this time for August 3, 1945: – On Tinian, Little Boy is...
Japan Hits Oppenheimer Promo
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Today’s headline in The New York Times, while slow in arriving, should not have surprised anyone: ‘Barbenheimer’ Isn’t Funny in Nuclear-Scarred Japan. It seems that for...
The Amazing Saga of Manhattan Project Engineer Who Tried to Halt the Atomic Bombings
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A sure sign of the cultural impact of a hit movie is that, after the first week, we are still seeing one article after another inspired by it, from the often silly (who...
When Oppenheimer Misled the Media on Trinity ‘Junket’
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Above: Catchy gospel tune, “Atomic Telephone,” from 1951, as the U.S. developed its H-bomb. I guess they could have called it “Atomic Teller-phone.” In the latest box...
When Oppenheimer Visited Japan
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A headline on Washington Post story today: ‘Disturbing’ decline in global nuclear security, watchdog says. Nuclear security risks are rising for the first time in a...
Inside a Mound in Hiroshima
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. A reminder (inadequately supplied by Oppenheimer) of what happened at the other end of the bomb in Hiroshima. Based on my visit. Excerpted from my book Atomic Cover-up....
What We Didn’t See in Oppenheimer
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. Strong response to this new bloggy newsletter and my various articles and media appearances in past week or so has been gratifying, especially since it has drawn...
When Oppenheimer Named Names, and Another Untold Story: The Nuclear Testing Tragedy
Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell's newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood. My appearance on Democracy Now! yesterday morning led to a lot of social media interest and links and inquiries. Happy to continue to talk to old and new audiences as...
