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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

What the movie Oppenheimer can teach today’s politicians about scientific advice

13 Nov 2023 Robert P Crease

US authorities celebrated Robert Oppenheimer for developing atomic weapons but sidelined him when he wanted to advise them on their use. It’s an episode that has many lessons for us today, says Robert P Crease

Oppenheimer movie still of the hearing
Moment of reckoning Cillian Murphy (centre, at microphone) playing J Robert Oppenheimer in a scene from the 2023 movie Oppenheimer that recreates his hearing of the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1954. (Courtesy: Universal Pictures)
One of the scariest moments in Robert Oppenheimer’s career was not shown in Oppenheimer, the recen

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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