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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Louis Chilton

‘A serious accusation’: Did Oppenheimer’s apple-poisoning incident really happen? It’s complicated

Melinda Sue Gordon

Much of Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour biopic about the physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, is rooted in verifiable fact.

The film tracks the life of Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy), from his early political activity through to the invention of the atomic bomb, and then the attacks on his reputation after the Second World War.

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