Oppenheimer’s JFK Connection Is Bigger Than The John F. Kennedy Namedrop Indicates

Oppenheimer name-drops President John F. Kennedy, but the scientist’s connection to JFK is more significant than indicated. Christopher Nolan’s most recent movie, Oppenheimer, explores the life of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer leading up to, during, and after the Manhattan Project. After the detonation of Little Boy and Fat Man on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the father of the atomic bomb rightfully developed conflicting feelings about nuclear weapons. His science killed and permanently injured hundreds of thousands of innocent people. His change in opinion put him at odds with another physicist named Lewis Strauss, who spearheaded the development of the H-bomb despite seeing the destruction in Japan. This animosity is shown throughout Oppenheimer.