• Rerun: Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

  • Jul 21 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
  • Podcast
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Rerun: Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

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  • This is a rerun of our episode about the book American Prometheus, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It originally aired on October 27, 2022.


    We're rerunning it in honor of the movie Oppenheimer, which Christopher Nolan wrote based on this book. This episode contains spoilers.


    Related stuff:

    • The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
    • The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy in the New York Review of Books
    • Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb by Ronald Takaki

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