Oppenheimer: Science & Ethics

Philosophy in Film 1

In 1942, Colonel Leslie Groves of the American army recruited Robert Oppenheimer, a renowned physicist, to lead the Manhattan Project, a top-secret mission aimed at developing an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer, also of Jewish descent, shared concerns with Einstein about the potential for Nazi Germany, led by Heisenberg, to develop such a weapon first. Einstein, feeling compelled to…