Coming from the Congo, I knew where an essential ingredient for atomic bombs was mined, even if everyone else seemed to ignore it.

Article by Wired: It tells of the horrors in colonial Belgium where miners were forced to extract uranium during WWII that would be used for the US’ nuclear bombs, historical events that Christopher Nolan’s movie omits.

CW: For the historical atrocities, slavery, mutilation

    • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      My pleasure. I didn’t know about this either and oftentimes I simply post whatever I find fascinating myself.

  • cobra89@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    historical events that Christopher Nolan’s movie omits

    It was already 3 hours long and they barely talked about the Uranium mining, just that it was being done.

    Not sure what they expected Christopher Nolan to do here. The movie focused on Oppenheimer the person. It wasn’t a documentary about the whole project and all its repercussions…

    I guess we should also fault the movie for not really talking about the suffering of the Japanese people as well. 🙄

    Is every movie supposed to cover every issue?