Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Oppenheimer: From Hiroshima to Hollywood<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n Strong response to this new bloggy newsletter and my various articles and media appearances<\/a> in past week or so has been gratifying, especially since it has drawn attention to key issues surrounding nuclear dangers that I have been raising since, oh, 1982. Among other things, there\u2019s been a run on my book \u201cAtomic Cover-up<\/a><\/em>,\u201d whose story really launched my nuclear obsession that year. I also enjoyed Will Bunch at the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em> hailing me as \u201cpioneering rock journalist.\u201d Now that<\/em> is another story\u2026<\/p>\n I\u2019m also getting Oppenheimer<\/em>-related \u201ctips,\u201d including this one (although I had to dig up the footage) from BookLockdown over at the Site Formerly Known as Twitter. I complained here yesterday, and in previous posts and an article, that while Christopher Nolan briefly shows Oppenheimer in a screening room watching film from post-bomb Hiroshima, he only covers his facial reaction, not the footage. Not even a glimpse. It\u2019s a critical omission in the movie; Nolan could have shot it a number of ways that would have been powerful and not overwhelmingly graphic.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well, an almost exact scene, and with the same side camera angle on Oppie, was included long ago in the first TV series on the physicist, from the BBC and PBS in 1979, Oppenheimer<\/em>, starring Sam Waterston. There, Oppie and others (including Gen. Groves) watch in silence as images from Hiroshima unspool on the screen, but in that case we do see some of the victims: grainy, and no dead bodies, but at least one may get the idea that, as in real life, the vast majority were women and kids. Here is part of the scene, which includes’ Groves\u2019 response.<\/p>\n