Actor Robert Downey Jr. may have declared “I am Iron Man,” but J. Robert Oppenheimer might have him beat by uttering the famous Bhagavad Gita text: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” Very metal. As Lewis Strauss, the former Marvel actor plays opposite Cillian Murphy’s Oppenheimer, as one of the original members of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) in 1946. The character’s main arc begins late in Oppenheimer, after the creation of the nuclear bomb and the end of WWII. Oppenheimer grows remorseful over his part in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki—and he urges President Henry S. Truman (Gary Oldman) to cease any further nuclear testing. In the film, Truman views these thoughts as a sign of weakness, stating that he alone bears the responsibility for ordering th… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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