Robert Christy

J. Robert Oppenheimer a dirigé l'équipe de scientifiques qui a mis au point la bombe atomique. Le parcours de ce physicien de génie, tiraillé entre la nécessité de mettre au point cette arme et ses interrogations éthiques, est raconté notamment à travers des interviews d'experts et du réalisateur Christopher Nolan.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"

A rare view from within, as several of the Manhattan Project scientists, including Hans Berthe, Robert Serber, Edward Teller, Robert Wilson, and more, speak of their experiences on the path to a terrible shared destiny. As their lives and work at Los Alamos are revealed, they relate stories of contradictions and jealousies, and how each came to terms with the atomic era's most immediate consequence: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.