Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it’s complicated.

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He decided to make the bomb. He knew what bombs are used for.

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Agreed, but that is not what the movie is about.

He did say (no one knows what he believed) that just having the bomb would mean world peace…

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Then he was a fool who’s actions contributed to the murder of hundreds of thousands.

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Used on a nation who’s army’s actions led to the murder of millions

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Look up projected casualties for Operation Downfall

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His reasoning was if the US didn’t make it, the Nazis would, and that would be even worse. He never wanted to make the bomb, it was just the lesser of two evils.

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And exactly that is the struggle he had. He even informed the president (who told him to fuck off in a polite way)

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