Cillian Murphy is J. Robert Oppenheimer in OPPENHEIMER
Common Footage
Oppenheimer
Directed by Christopher Nolan
UK and US: On normal launch from Friday
At 05:29 hours and 45 seconds on 16 July 1945, within the coronary heart of the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico, {an electrical} circuit clicks shut and 32 detonators hearth, driving a uranium plug right into a core of plutonium. The plutonium fissions, every atom splitting into lighter parts, a blast of gamma radiation and two or three extra neutrons, which hurtle forth, triggering additional reactions.
And so a brand new …