I am early in the book American Prometheus, the story of Oppenheimer. So far the movie follow the book fairly well. Oppenheimer was a flawed character of somewhat a lot of that probably due to his early life and the atmosphere in school that he was exposed to. He came from a very wealthy Jewish family and went to a rather progressive school in New York, which probably led to his interest in many leftist causes. Most of these academics and theoretical physicist lived in a fairly insular world of academia. None of these people were ever truly exposed to the horrors and realities of what they thought they believed in.
I need to read that book!
I really liked the part where Lawerence warns Oppy NOT to be political.
If he had just took that advice, history would have been different.