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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 Importance of Ambivalence

When General Leslie Groves hired him as the scientific director at Los Alamos, he had read his FBI file. He knew that Oppy had all these associations. So why was it okay in 1943? Well, they needed him, and this was quite common. Many of these university professors that they were recruiting into the Manhattan Project had been politically active,. And what changed was after the war, Oppenheimer begins to go public with his criticisms and his worries about relying on the atomic bomb.

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