The plutonium used for nuclear weapons is plutonium-239 and the plutonium that powers current space exploration hopes is plutonium-238.
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Interstellar succeeds in the difficult task of creating sympathy for an initially unlikeable character via a harrowing plot turn.
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Interstellar’s visuals and music score are excellent but more backstory would have helped orient the reader. We are largely left to guess how disaster occurred.
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No one gained from Oppenheimer’s fall. Not only was the scientist’s career destroyed and life ruined, but also the country was deprived of benefiting from his intelligence.
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“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” So goes a line from the Hindu sacred text Bhagavad Gita, quoted by none other than J. Robert Oppenheimer, the quantum physicist who headed up the development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. Christopher Nolan’s new film Oppenheimer hit theaters on July 21 and has given audiences a taste of why the “father of the atomic bomb” entertained that haunting, little phrase. Nolan hit this movie out of the park. With a star-studded cast, a juxtaposed and non-linear storytelling mode, and a beautiful soundtrack to boot, some critics are calling it the most important movie of the century. That might be because the production of the atom bomb Read More ›