“Oppenheimer,” the other serious recent movie billed as the calling card of our nuclear doom, wasn’t much better in showing us the human toll. By my count, the film clocks the effects of the weapons in Japan only twice: Through the face of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the bomb’s creator, and his compatriots, as they see images from Japan, where America dropped two A-bombs. And through his hallucination, when he imagines the skin of a woman peeling off and a charred body on the ground, as he gives a speech to rousing cheers for the bomb’s suc
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