Christopher Nolan has been generous enough to put together a full-on Origin Story film, combining key elements from the Nuclear War and McCarthyism episodes. So Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt put on their Oppenheimer cosplay outfits including suit trousers waisted up to the chest, and set off to the cinema to watch it.
Here's what they had to say…
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Reading List:
Luis Alvarez – Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist
Martin Amis – Einstein’s Monsters
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
David C. Cassidy – J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century
Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi – The Worlds of Herman Kahn
Herman Kahn – On Thermonuclear War
William Lanouette – Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard
William L. Laurence – Dawn Over Zero: The Story of the Atomic Bomb
Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk - Indefensible Weapons
Ronald Reagan – An American Life
Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the Earth
P.D. Smith – Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon
H.G. Wells – The World Set Free
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, by Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey Michaels
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Alex Rees, music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.
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