During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to oversee the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists develop the first nuclear weapons. The film explores his life, the Trinity test, the ethical dilemmas, and the political consequences including his 1954 security hearing.
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The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the Manhattan Project and developed the atomic bomb during World War II.