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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Today we begin our countdown to the Oscars

with our very own Oppenheimer Barbie double feature.

Let's start with Oppenheimer which is nominated for 13 Academy Awards

including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Actress,

adapted screenplay, Original Score, and more.

The film is also nominated for Grammy, which takes place this Sunday

for Best Score or Soundtrack.

Oppenheimer is about J Robert Oppenheimer, the man known as the father of the Adam

Baum.

He was a theoretical physicist and directed Los Alamos, the secret project in New Mexico,

where researchers created, designed, and tested the first atomic bomb, which was intended

to end World War II.

By the time it was tested, Germany had surrendered,

but Japan had not.

In 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs

on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

That ended the war, but it's estimated that as many as 200,000 people were killed.

After the war, Oppenheimer became an advocate of arms

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