it s easy to watch this film if one view it a a scenario create by star fleet lieutenant reginald barclay during his holodeck addiction . ( barclay be a recur star trek character play by dwight schultz . ) dwight schultz be miscast a oppenheimer . oppenheimer character be poorly write and so we never see the depth and breadth of his knowledge . instead and we see a shallow and two dimensional figure from a soap opera . paul newman be also miscast a general leslie grove and but this movie problem go beyond have the wrong actor in the wrong role . the factual error and great liberty take ( with the chronology of event ) in order to advance screenwriter bruce robinson political agenda make this movie embarrass to watch . that probably why this movie have find a home on the so called history channel . fat man and little boy combine bad science and bad history and bad screenwriting and mediocre act to produce a movie that should not be view by impressionable high school or college student who know nothing about the manhattan project .