Episode 24: “American Prometheus”, “The Day After Trinity”

It’s almost time! This is our last episode until Oppenheimer premieres in wide release. As such, we prepared as much as we can by reading American Prometheus, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin’s exhaustive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

We also watched The Day After Trinity, the 1981 documentary that chronicles the events of the Los Alamos test and acts as a kind of CliffsNotes on American Prometheus.

So join us for this freewheeling episode, and get ready for July 21.

• Find where to watch The Day After Trinity on JustWatch
• Buy American Prometheus on Bookshop.org
• Buy The Nolan Variations on Bookshop.org
• Episode-by-episode media list (Google Doc)
• Kevin McCarthy interview clip with Nolan (TikTok)
• Barbenheimer fever: 20,000 double features booked, says AMC (Variety)
• Cillian Murphy encourages Barbenheimer double feature (Games Radar, via La Vanguardia)
• And again, along with Nolan (IGN)
• No CGI shots in Oppenheimer, says Nolan (Collider)
• Greta Gerwig’s Official Barbie Watchlist (Letterboxd)
• Christopher Nolan goes deep on ‘Oppenheimer’, his most ‘extreme’ film to date (Los Angeles Times; archive link)
• Behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ a Prizewinning Biography 25 Years in the Making (The New York Times; archive link)
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• Marshall’s Letterboxd: @MDoig
• Jake’s Letterboxd: @808jake_
• Read Jake’s review of the Paramore show in Fort Worth here
• Jake’s Substack: Jacob’s Letter