As I sat in a dark, cavernous movie theater in Berlin watching the film “Oppenheimer,” my mind was thousands of miles away.
Like many other people who turned out to see the biopic, I was captivated by Christopher Nolan’s portrayal of the Trinity test and Cillian Murphy’s performance as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the singularly ambitious, then morally conflicted father of the atomic bomb.
And if so, how did lawmakers keep it a secret?
These arguably hairsplitting thoughts nagged at me thanks to my job as a congressional correspondent focused on federal spending.
(I was in Berlin for a brief break — so much for that.)
Persons:
“ Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s, Robert Oppenheimer
Organizations:
Trinity
Locations:
Berlin, Alamos