On: Christopher Nolan wants Oppenheimer to be a cautionary tale for Silicon Valley

[Apocryphon]

Wasn’t ever going to happen. The Germans were never even close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program

[umeshunni → Apocryphon]

Your comment made me wonder if there's an alternate history work of fiction where the atom bomb wasn't built. Something like Man in the High Castle for WW2 victory or For All Mankind for the Space Race.

I found:

- The Oppenheimer Alternative https://www.amazon.com/Oppenheimer-Alternative-Robert-J-Sawy... (Fission bomb instead of Fusion bomb)

- The Berlin Project: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/30753656 (earlier atom bomb)

[Apocryphon → umeshunni]

That would be a very interesting divergence to explore, with very interesting ramifications for the Cold War, especially if nuclear weapons do get invented later on, but without two bloody live-fire demonstrations to shock the world.

[wussboy → Apocryphon]

Hindsight is 20/20

[pier25 → wussboy]

Exactly. They had to decide without knowing what the Germans were up to.