To his credit Newman does not play a man whose views he would very little in common with as any kind of caricature. Paul Newman who all his life has been a disarmament activist plays General Groves. With two men from as widely divergent backgrounds as these were, conflict was inevitable. Robert Oppenheimer who led the team of scientists who developed the bomb under Groves's direction. Groves of the United States Army and physicist J. Fat Man was the plutonium bomb and that one was dropped on Nagasaki and Little Boy was the one used on Hiroshima The film is primarily a conflict between General Leslie R. The terms by the way are the code names of two bombs fueled with plutonium and uranium. How these came to be and came to be in American hands is the story of this film. Fat Man And Little Boy were the code names of the two atomic bombs that were dropped in reverse order on Nagasaki and Hiroshina.
