Oppenheimer biographer tours Lab while movie is filmed locally

Technical Report · Wed Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1859862· OSTI ID:1859862

Steeves, Brye Ann ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

While a Hollywood movie crew filmed the Oppenheimer movie in Los Alamos these past few weeks, a special guest stopped by the Lab in between takes and chats with big-name actors. Director Thom Mason invited Kai Bird, co-author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, to LANL while Bird was in town. The film’s director, Christopher Nolan, wrote the screenplay based on Bird’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, published in 2005. Oppenheimer was a physicist and the Lab’s first director of its wartime mission to secretly create the atomic bombs and help end World War II.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: 89233218CNA000001
• OSTI ID: 1859862
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-22-22714
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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