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Rerun: Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

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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