Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by umeshunni on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:35PM (#36760339)

Ah yes, what a better world we would be living in if the Nazis had created the bomb first.

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by Apocryphon on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:39PM (#36760411)

Wasn’t ever going to happen. The Germans were never even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by wussboy on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:40PM (#36760432)

Hindsight is 20/20

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by pier25 on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:07PM (#36762589)

Exactly. They had to decide without knowing what the Germans were up to.

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by umeshunni on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:08PM (#36761816)

Your comment made me wonder if there's an alternate history work of fiction where the atom bomb wasn't built. Something like Man in the High Castle for WW2 victory or For All Mankind for the Space Race.

I found:

- The Oppenheimer Alternative https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawy... (Fission bomb instead of Fusion bomb)

- The Berlin Project: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30753656 (earlier atom bomb)

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Re:Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary ta... by Apocryphon on Monday July 17, 2023 @02:19PM (#36761957)

That would be a very interesting divergence to explore, with very interesting ramifications for the Cold War, especially if nuclear weapons do get invented later on, but without two bloody live-fire demonstrations to shock the world.

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