2 real historical locations · United States
Christopher Nolan's epic biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project and oversaw the first atomic bomb test at Trinity. The film spans his career, the bomb, and his post-war security hearing — a meditation on genius, politics, and moral consequence.
CinemaMapped has mapped 2 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning United States.
J. Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos — assembling the world's greatest scientific minds to build the weapon that will end the war ...
Los Alamos Laboratory (Site Y) was established in January 1943 under J. Robert Oppenheimer. At its peak it employed over 6,000 people in the remote New Mexico desert. The Trinity test on 16 July 1945 was the first det...
View location →The Trinity test on 16 July 1945 — the world's first nuclear detonation — witnessed by the scientists who built it in the New Mexico desert, 21 days before H...
The Trinity test used a plutonium implosion device ('The Gadget') detonated atop a 30-metre steel tower. The explosion yielded approximately 21 kilotons, creating a fireball 40 km high and a crater 1.5 metres deep in ...
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