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Report and letter signed by Oppenheimer up for auction ahead of Oscars
- An auction house is taking bids on a report of the atomic bomb’s birth and a letter signed by Robert Oppenheimer describing his creation as a ‘weapon for aggressors’
- It comes as Christopher Nolan’s US$1 billion-grossing epic ‘Oppenheimer’ leads the Academy Awards nominations, including for best picture, best actor and best director
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Propelled to prominence by the blockbuster film Oppenheimer, papers charting the world-changing creation of the atomic bomb by the eponymous physicist are up for auction in the United States.
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Christopher Nolan’s US$1 billion-grossing epic immortalises the story of the wartime race to create nuclear weapons, with the film the leading contender at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
It has received 13 nominations, including for best picture, best actor and best director.
Among the items to go under the hammer in Boston is a report on the birth of the atomic bomb, which was subsequently used against Japan, helping lead to the end of World War II.
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It chronicles the Manhattan Project which was managed in secret in Los Alamos, a town built around a classified lab that was created from scratch in New Mexico at the suggestion of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who had a lifelong passion for the surrounding mountains.
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