Atomic bomb historian Richard Rhodes talks to Nature about how researchers fare in the film, and what it gets right and wrong.
, about the US theoretical physicist who led the development of the world’s first nuclear weapons, opened in UK and US cinemas on 21 July to widespread acclaim. Since the film’s release, the scientific world has been abuzz about its accuracy — and whether it does justice to the many facets of the story of the atomic bomb.
All in all, a really good job. I have watched many Hollywood versions of this story — I remember that terrible [1989] movie, which got almost everything wrong. One mistake — and this was not in Nolan’s picture at all — was the notion that somehow, the physicists could have all got together after the discovery of fission [in 1938] and said, “Oh, let’s not work on this, let’s not tell anybody, let’s just keep this quiet and to ourselves” [to avoid the development of nuclear weapons].
Now, I want to point out something that was not referred to in the movie: Los Alamos officials thought that the people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki would be in their bomb shelters when the bombs were dropped. Their estimates of the number of deaths were much lower than the actual number. The reason they thought that is because the Japanese were always going to the bomb shelters when they heard a fleet of B-29 airplanes coming.
He wanted this task, and I think he probably saw more clearly than even Groves did, the need to have scientists get together in one place.
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