One nuclear expert says the film is unrealistic because it portrays quantum mechanics as ‘hard’
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Australian nuclear experts have reviewed Oppenheimer and say it is epic, intense and compelling – but not always accurate.
Its portrayal of the first atomic bomb detonation, for example, lacked the “violet hues” and heat wave of the real thing.
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