The Day After Trinity

This was quite interesting. I am biased because I am genuinely interested in things about physics and real world politics more than the philosophical side of politics. That said it balances historical context, personal backgrounds, and the subject matter very well. It also ended on a near perfect note. That said, I thought the last 20 minutes we mostly superfluous to the point of the film and giving the name and title of a person being interviewed was so scarcely used that I lost some names.

I had read American Prometheus (Kai Bird) a few years ago; where that book was almost too overwhelming, this documentary is a little too brief, and seems to minimize a lot of the many discrepancies in Oppenheimer's life. Still, it takes a pretty even-handed approach to the question of whether, now having created the ultimate weapon, it should be used.

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