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Adapting Robert Oppenheimer’s Story to Film, Plus Greta Gerwig on Becoming a Director

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The Life and Times of Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Oppenheimer gave us the atomic age, and we're still living with it. He was a man of the left at Berkeley in California in the 1930s in the midst of depression. His role at Los Alamos is, if anything, the narrative midpoint of the story. The prosecution of Oppenheimer as a person too suspect to hold a security clearance suddenly becomes his horrific ruin.

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