Cameron isn't the first critic to raise that particular issue with Oppenheimer; Spike Lee, to name one critic, has said, "If it's three hours, I would like to add some more minutes about what happened to the Japanese people. People got vaporized. Many years later, people are radioactive."

Director on director crime. James Cameron recently called out Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning film “Oppenheimer” for being “a moral cop out” in the topic of nuclear war. Cameron, 70, spoke to Deadline about his plans to direct a film based on Charles Pellegrino’s upcoming book “Ghosts of Hiroshima” and was asked if he was surprised about the success of “Oppenheimer.