On July 21, the biopic “Oppenheimer” will drop in theaters. It dramatizes the story of “the Father of the Atomic Bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer. The film is being criticized for a lack of racial diversity. Far more problematic is its whitewashing of the physicist’s communist sympathies.
In the movie, Oppenheimer is called “the most important man who ever lived,” an absurdity unmatched in Hollywood razzle-dazzle but one that is gaining traction as the zeitgeist moves left, popularized by such bizarre fiction as “real communism has never been tried.”
If your code name is cropping up in the Venona transcripts there could be a problem.
As for the movie being too “White” it was called The Manhattan Project, not The Harlem Project but I agree Lizzo would have made a credible Oppenheimer.
