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Molly Edwards

Christopher Nolan has explained why Oppenheimer doesn't show Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Oppenheimer

Christopher Nolan has addressed why Oppenheimer doesn't directly depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

The film focuses on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The combined death toll of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are put at between 129,000 and 226,000 people, mostly civilians. 

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