He’s so weird you might think director Christopher Nolan must be making it up.

But the portrayal is close to 100 percent true.

Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb.

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So the government revoked his security clearance, booting him off his Atomic Energy Commission job.

He thought H-bombs were a worse idea than A-bombs.

At first, he didnt think H-bombs could work.

cillian murphy holding a pipe in his hand in a scene from the film oppenheimer

He also naively thought the Soviets would sensibly agree to limit nukes at the peak of the Cold War.

Oppenheimer wasn’t reallya communist, as his persecutors claimed.

cillian murphy working on a bomb in the film oppenheimer

cillian murphy wearing googles while looking into a hole emitting a bright light in the film oppenheimer

emily blunt sitting on a couch behind cillian murphy as he is sitting in a chair at a desk in the film oppenheimer