re: Christopher Nolan’s 'Oppenheimer' cast adds Matt Damon and Robert Downey Jr (Updated)

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Cool, I hope he gets some nice cinematic shots of the Berkeley campus before heading off to dreary Los Alamos. Berkeley: It's not just hippies and tree-sitters!

Also, it was agreed that the University of California would run Los Alamos after scientists whom Oppenheimer was recruiting objected to working as military officers.

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Berkeley had already become the center for theoretical physics in the United States, thanks in part to the efforts of a brilliant physicist named J. Robert Oppenheimer. In the summer of 1942, Oppenheimer organized a group at Berkeley to study the feasibility and design of an atomic bomb. The group of “luminaries,” as Oppenheimer called them, included Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, John Van Vleck, Felix Bloch, Robert Serber, and Emil Konopinski.

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