Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER, written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. Image copyright Universal Pictures. While Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” brilliantly captures the ethical dilemma surrounding nuclear weaponry, the film overlooks the ensuing devastation caused by Hanford’s lethal nuclear byproducts. Hanford is, in fact, only given a movie-mention one time in the three hour epic, and that’s simply not enough. From 1944 up to the Cold War’s conclusion in 1991, Hanford provided over 60% of the plutonium for the country’s nuclear weapons program, sufficient for several tens of thousands of arms in the US nuclear stockpile. The community of Hanford before the reactors went in.
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