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Scene from Barefoot Gen (1983) where it shows the effects of the Nuclear Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on 1945. Hiroshima

Scene from Barefoot Gen (1983) where it shows the effects of the Nuclear Bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on 1945.

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July 23, 2023
Daniel A McGovern: The Irishman who filmed the aftermath of the Nagasaki atomic bomb Hiroshima

Daniel A McGovern: The Irishman who filmed the aftermath of the Nagasaki atomic bomb

As one Irishman, Cillian Murphy, portrays the physicist and so-called father of the atomic bomb in Oppenheimer, released in cinemas today, recall another Irishman who was the first to film the real-life devastation it caused. Daniel A McGovern, a native of Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, was among the first to enter…
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July 21, 2023
What Was the Manhattan Project? Hiroshima

What Was the Manhattan Project?

The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to make the first atomic bombs during World War II. Its results had profound impacts on history: the subsequent nuclear arms race has radically changed the political world order in ways that are still evident today. Thousands of scientists, including theoretical physicist J.…
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July 21, 2023
Christopher Nolan has explained why Oppenheimer doesn’t show Hiroshima and Nagasaki Hiroshima

Christopher Nolan has explained why Oppenheimer doesn’t show Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Christopher Nolan has addressed why Oppenheimer doesn't directly depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The film focuses on the titular J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. The combined death toll of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are put at between 129,000 and 226,000 people, mostly…
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July 19, 2023