'There is only one Robert'

Oppenheimer covers the peak period of Oppie's life, from his student days in the 1920s until a kangaroo-court hearing that denied him a security clearance in 1951

Everyone knows that the latest Christopher Nolan film, Oppenheimer, champion both at the global box office and in review columns, is based upon American Prometheus (hereafter AP), the universally hailed Kai Bird-Martin J Sherwin biography of the single most significant individual of our times, J Robert Oppenheimer (Oppie hereafter). I know of only one other such felicitous confluence of excellence: Lincoln, the 2012 Steven Spielberg eponymous film depicting the last phase of the Great Emancipator’s life based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals.

Lincoln went largely unsung in India; however, the Oppenheimer public relations campaign has worked overtime in