A brilliant physicist takes on the task of designing the ultimate weapon in this brooding and political US biopic, but will the atom bomb ensure world peace or bring about the destruction of humankind?

During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world's first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.