Alex Wellerstein is a professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the author of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, which appeared from the University of Chicago Press in 2021. He also writes <a href="https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/">Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog</a> online, and his next book will be on atomic policy during the Truman administration.

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Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb: On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”

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Alex Wellerstein is a professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the author of Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, which appeared from the University of Chicago Press in 2021. He also writes <a href="https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/">Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog</a> online, and his next book will be on atomic policy during the Truman administration.

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Fact, Fiction, and the Father of the Bomb: On Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”