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Discourse : Oppenheimer’s Unlikely Indictment of the Administrative State

September 28, 2023 | By JOSH ROBBINS

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” was an unusual summer blockbuster. A three-hour biographic period piece about a theoretical physicist (J. Robert Oppenheimer), the film features extended discussions of quantum physics, complex mathematics and Cold War politics. Despite telling the story of the creation of the atomic bomb, the fil ...