Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER Universal Pictures
Directed by Christopher Nolan
UK and US: On general release from Friday
At 05:29 hours and 45 seconds on 16 July 1945, in the heart of the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico, an electrical circuit clicks shut and 32 detonators fire, driving a uranium plug into a core of plutonium. The plutonium fissions, each atom splitting into lighter elements, a blast of gamma radiation and two or three more neutrons, which hurtle forth, triggering further reactions.
And so a new…
