It helps to be somewhat familiar with the Pacific theater of World War II, and with Steven Spielberg's 1975 masterpiece, #Jaws.

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Sources:
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/08/28/99470603.html?pageNumber=15
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1941/08/03/109597005.html?pageNumber=20
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/movies/jaws-warning.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/magazine/survivor-guilt-veteran.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/15/archives/new-jersey-weekly-peter-benchley-success-is-a-maneater-benchley.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/magazine/hiroshima-claude-eatherly-antinuclear.html

https://youtu.be/c-M1klmXjqI
https://youtu.be/PDLHow-bXug
https://youtu.be/wrxr9604rJc
https://youtu.be/SgtJEhEppu4
https://youtu.be/CNKmqlgOLbw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYtYIF_g-T4&t=167s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbpPEAc1hjw
https://youtu.be/grWy7wJgOtI

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/49921
https://www.sbs.com.au/movies/article/2019/05/30/jaws-turns-44-here-are-44-things-you-didnt-know-about-original-blockbuster
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/qa-steven-spielberg-227580
https://emdashes.com/2006/08/a-goldmine-of-pauline-kael-rev.php
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2010/12/steven-spielberg-world-war-ii/
https://www.gradesaver.com/jaws
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/steven-spielberg-i-grew-up-with-stories-about-war-6287679.html
https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/is-jaws-just-a-film-about-a-shark-or-something-else/
https://crimereads.com/on-the-endless-symbolism-of-jaws-which-owes-its-dark-soul-to-moby-dick/

https://archives.rep-am.com/2016/11/06/a-naval-tragedy-ended-in-morris/
https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/alphabetical-index/interviewees/30-interview-html-text/146-spielberg-arnold
https://www.military.com/off-duty/movies/2020/08/26/5-steven-spielberg-movies-inspired-his-dads-service-wwii.html
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/148431879

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_(CA-35)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Spielberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

https://apjjf.org/-Peter-J.-Kuznick/2642/article.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24443683
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/08/04/70-years-after-hiroshima-opinions-have-shifted-on-use-of-atomic-bomb/
https://news.gallup.com/poll/17677/majority-supports-use-atomic-bomb-japan-wwii.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/vault/191897/gallup-vault-americans-mindset-hiroshima.aspx
https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/einstein-regret-video
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein/peace-and-war/the-manhattan-project
https://www.history.com/news/father-of-the-atomic-bomb-was-blacklisted-for-opposing-h-bomb
https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/oppenheimer-from-the-atomic-bomb-to-pacifism/

Let There Be Light (1946)
The Jaws Log (1975)
Amazing Stories, “The Mission” (1985)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Five Came Back (2017)
Spielberg (2017)
The Fabelmans (2022)


#ww2 #wwii #spielberg #oppenheimer