The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Season 21, Episode 1, Aired

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The career of America's most famous and controversial nuclear physicist and his fall from grace during the Cold War.
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      • Oppenheimer gave an invited lecture to the New York Mineralogical Society at the age of ten. His early skill and aptitude for science often made him scornful of others' understanding and obtuse to others' personal motivations.

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      • Richard Rhodes (author): (on Oppenheimer's belief that he could curb atomic escalation) Oppenheimer was naive enough, he really thought if you could get inside (politics), you could change things.

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      • This is a two hour installment. David Strathaim (who played Edward R. Murrow in Good Night and Good Luck) stars as J. Robert Oppenheimer in dramatic recreations.

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