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'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film (www.nbcnews.com)

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Viewers are divided over whether the film should have shown Japanese victims of the weapon created by physicist Robert Oppenheimer. Experts say it's complicated.

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[–] kayjay@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

His reasoning was if the US didn’t make it, the Nazis would, and that would be even worse. He never wanted to make the bomb, it was just the lesser of two evils.