The movie “Oppenheimer” is expected to win big at the Academy Awards this weekend. But one point of controversy in the film is that the director did not depict any images of the devastating aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, which ended World War II. Getting those images out to the public was a longtime quest for Herbert Sussan, one of the filmmakers who filmed in Japan at the time. Jon Kalish reports on the reasons that footage was withheld from the public, and the disappointment some feel that they weren’t included in the recent movie.
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