I have always been very interested with the history of the Manhattan project and I really appreciate how this series brings to life the atmosphere of the Los Alamos laboratory in its early day with all of its grittiness and enthusiasm, but also with its obsessive secrecy. However, I also really object to the depiction of Robert Oppenheimer as an incredibly distant and God-like figure, totally disconnected with day-to-day operations. This depiction is very much at odds with those presented in the 1980 TV series "Oppenheimer" and the 1989 TV movie "Day One" or even in Richard Rhodes' 1980 best-selling book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", all of which present Oppenheimer as a talented and inspired leader.
