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‘Oppenheimer’ overhypes nuclear weapons
The movie “Oppenheimer” hypes a serious issue of national survival, and in the process makes matters much, much worse. By mythologizing J. Robert Oppenheimer (and in the process ascribing godlike powers to nuclear weapons), the movie sets back efforts to control these dangerous devices.
True, people who watch the movie will emerge frightened about nuclear war. But decades of terrifying pictures of ash, rubble and burned bodies have not, apparently, stifled governments’ desire for these weapons. All nine nuclear-armed states are currently increasing their arsenals or upgrading them. Fear, in other words, has not worked. Hyping the danger has the unintended consequence of hyping the weapons.
Nuclear weapons have always been overhyped. All this “Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” stuff (the phrase that Oppenheimer said came to his mind as he watched the first atomic test) is great showmanship, but it’s hardly realistic.
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