Fat Man and Little Boy, Roland Joffé, USA, 1989

Film Series and Lectures «Los costes de la energía nuclear» (The cost of nuclear power)

Creadores de sombras (Fat Man and Little Boy)

Presented by Consuelo Lloret, representative of the Cinema Club (Universitat de València), José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, professor of History of Science (Universitat de València) and researcher of the IHMC López Piñero, and Vicent Ballester García, professor of the Isabel de Villena Secondary Education Centre (Valencia), who will introduce a general view of the film series with the talk Ciencia y guerra: el proyecto Manhattan (Cience and war: Manhattan project). Before the screening, at 5 pm, it will be presented the opening lecture La energía nuclear: perspectivas históricas (Nuclear power: historical perspectives), by Lino Camprubí (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Synopsis:

Fat Man and Little Boy tells the story of the North American physician Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb, when he is called in 1942 by the authorities of his country for being part of the Project Manhattan. The film portrays the historical facts that occurred in Oppenheimer during the development of the artifacts that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the World War II: and the serious moral problems that caused to him, like to many other scientists of the project, the conscience of using science for destructive purposes.