‘Oppenheimer’ and America’s Nuclear Workers
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on August 27, 2023
A worker at Hanford, Washington, where plutonium was produced for the first atomic bomb. Credit for all photos: U.S. Department of Energy
The summer blockbuster “Oppenheimer,” which tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project to design and build the world’s first atomic bombs, is generating a lot of interest in the history of how nuclear weapons were developed in the United States.
But one important part of this history the viewer does . . .
