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“In August of 1945, the city of Hiroshima was destroyed in about nine seconds by a single atomic bomb.” So begins the 1981 documentary The Day After Trinity, in a voice-over against a black background. “The man responsible for building the bomb was a gentle and eloquent physicist named J. Robert Oppenheimer.” Directed by a young filmmaker named Jon Else and financed by a public-television station in San Jose, The Day After Trinity quickly became a hit across the United States. One of its innovations was to pair the story of the bomb with that of Oppenheimer, foregrounding the contradiction…
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