Episode 43: Did Oppenheimer’s Atomic Bomb Make the World Safer?

De: Peter L. Bergen

Narrado por: Peter L. Bergen

The wild success of Oppenheimer, with 13 Oscar nominations and nearly $1 billion in ticket sales, has revived a debate about the most destructive weapon ever created — and renewed concerns about how close the world might be to nuclear war. The leader of the project to build the bomb during WWII, Robert Oppenheimer, believed — at first — that it could help prevent wars between the superpowers. There hasn’t been one since. So was he right?

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