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Context: two people who developed extremely destructive weapons, were horrified by their use, and had biographical films made about them.

Jiro Horikoshi was a Japanese aviation engineer who designed the dreaded Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen ('Zero' to allied pilots). J Robert Oppenheimer was a US physicist who led the development of the nuclear bomb.

Note that The Wind Rises is only partly based on Horikoshi's life, and also borrows from Hori Tatsuo's semi-autobiographical novel The Wind has Risen (itself named after a French poem) and director Hayao Miyazaki's childhood experiences of WW2.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

It is the truth. You can real literal official declassified documents from the time period saying as much. You are wrong.