Using two atomic bombs on Japan is something that humanity will not only always debate but should always debate and wrestle with. All in all, as I wrote in my own review of the film which you can read here, I think Christopher Nolan and crew handled it pretty well.

While I was watching the Oppenheimer film in the theater, I was mentally braced for how the debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs onto Japan was going to be handled. It brought peace to the world at that time.” The thing is it did what it was supposed to do. When talking about dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, Paul Tibbets who flew on the missions put it this way: “I do not dwell on the moral issue. The distance between the concept of “justified” and the concept of “good” has a river of moral conundrums flowing through it. Things that are different are not the same.

Marine Corps Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives Battered religious figures stand watch on a hill above a tattered valley.

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