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Movie fans are coming out in droves to see "Oppenheimer," Christopher Nolan's epic film centered around one of the chief scientists behind the construction of the atom bomb. After five days of release, theaters were already reporting milestone attendance, with ticket sales surpassing $100 million. For those who have not seen the film, the three-hour biopic is about the famed physicist who worked on the top-secret Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Thousands of scientists, including the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, took part in the Manhattan…
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