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'Oppenheimer' draws debate over the absence of Japanese bombing victims in the film

Christopher Nolan's “Oppenheimer,” revolves around physicist Robert Oppenheimer and his development of the atomic bomb. Many are criticizing the lack of Japanese representation as the erasure of the hundreds of thousands of victims of Oppenheimer's creation. Others, including Nolan, argued that the film zeroes in on the scientist’s experience and perspective which is distinct and separate from the victims’.