[william-newman]

"Trimming facts off at the first few levels of details makes everything feel, well, oversimplified."

But it's not just oversimplification of collective action, the plot was overblown even at the level of purely individual events in individual characters' lives. Arguably the greatest theoretical/experimental crossover physicist of the century takes the occasion of accepting his Nobel Prize to escape with his Jewish wife from Il Duce, and a few years later stands musing over a nuclear chain reaction in a secret project in Chicago? Puhleeze.

[stcredzero]

a few years later stands musing over a nuclear chain reaction in a secret project in Chicago? Puhleeze.

Not only that, but the reactor is in the basement of the University's stadium. Whoever wrote that one must've been reading Spider Man!