When & How J. Robert Oppenheimer Died & How Long After The Movie It Happened

The real-life J. Robert Oppenheimer died after the events that took place in Christopher Nolan’s latest film Oppenheimer. In an unusual move for a biopic, Nolan decided not to include an overview of Oppenheimer’s final years before his death presumably because the character symbolically already had ‘become death’ in the film. The thought-provoking portrait of the controversial physicist depicted many aspects of his personal life as it related to his creation of the atomic bomb, highlighting the tragic reality that even the most genuine pursuits can have the most devastating consequences.