Far vedere l’invisibile. La parabola di R.J. Oppenheimer e il film di Christopher Nolan

Unlike Ettore Majorana, who chose silence and self-exclusion, Oppenheimer not only did not “refuse science” (Sciascia), but became a public witness to the emergence of a new role for the modern scientist. He chose to make himself visible, consistent with the experience of having seen something no one before him had even imagined. In Christopher Nolan’s hands, the journey that led to the creation of the first atomic bomb is portrayed as the progressive attainment of a secret vision of the world – not only by the scientist, but by cinema itself.