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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