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- Oppenheimer is played by Cillian Murphy. Several other real people are portrayed, such as Leslie Groves (Matt Damon), the general who recruited Oppenheimer, as well as figures from his personal life, including Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh), a psychiatrist who he dated in the 1930s, and his wife Kitty Oppenheimer (Emily Blunt).
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Jul 27, 2014 · The Manhattan TV show true story reveals that despite the show using real history as a backdrop, the main characters are fictional. Occasionally, certain pivotal real-life figures are represented, including theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer ("the father of the A-bomb"), portrayed by Daniel London.
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Apr 18, 2023 · David Cassidy’s 2005 book J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century explores the Oppenheimer true story after the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer admitted that the mass killings of Japanese people perturbed him, and he refused to develop any more bombs for the American government.
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Oct 13, 2015 · Names like Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein are thrown around, real events from World War II are often mentioned, and the entire series hinges on The Manhattan Project, scientists' efforts...
Oct 13, 2015 · The most famous real-life spy, Klaus Ruchs, was a primarily physicist on the Manhattan project and smuggled secrets to the Soviet Union. Though Ruchs was caught in 1949 and tried, another...
Jul 28, 2017 · Expert Heather McClenahan reveals how much of WGN's series "Manhattan" was historically accurate.