Storyline:

As the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory in Colorado during World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer, a physics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is most recognized for developing the atomic bomb. He was present for the historic first nuclear explosion in 1945 in New Mexico, and he later cited the Bhagavad Gita, which states, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." This documentary features brand-new interviews and insights from people who knew Oppenheimer and others influenced by his legacy. It explores Oppenheimer's life, from his early years to his engagement with nuclear physics and his later campaign for nuclear weapons regulations.

True story behind Oppenheimer:

The Manhattan effort, as it was called, was a top-secret effort that produced the bombs that the United States used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Oppenheimer is best known for being the “father of the atomic bomb.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer Death:

In late 1965, Oppenheimer, a chain smoker (of Chesterfields), received a throat cancer diagnosis. In late 1966, following a non-productive surgery, he tried chemotherapy and radiation therapy without success. At the age of sixty-two, he passed away peacefully at his Princeton home on February 18, 1967.A week later, in Princeton University's Alexander Hall, there was a memorial service.Six hundred of his colleagues in science, politics, and the armed forces, including Bethe, Groves, Kennan, Lilienthal, Rabi, Smyth, and Wigner, attended the funeral. The novelist John O'Hara, the New York City Ballet's director George Balanchine, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. were present, along with his brother Frank and other family members. Smyth, Bethe, and Kennan offered succinct eulogies. Kitty dumped Oppenheimer's cremated remains into the sea in front of the St. John beach house, encasing his ashes in an urn.

Kitty passed away in October 1972 at the age of 62 due to a pulmonary embolism that exacerbated an intestinal illness. Peter, the son of Oppenheimer, inherited the family's ranch in New Mexico, while Katherine "Toni" Oppenheimer Silber, their daughter, inherited the beach property. The FBI brought up the old allegations against her father, and Toni was denied security clearance for her dream job as a UN interpreter. Three months after her second marriage failed, in January 1977, she committed herself by hanging herself at the family beach house. She bequeathed the land to “the people of St. John for a public park and recreation area.The house was built too close to the coast and was destroyed by a hurricane.  Since  2007, the Virgin Islands  government   has  maintained a  community   center  nearby.