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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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Oppenheimer's Argument for a Demonstration Weapon

Robert Oppenheimer believed the bomb should have been used as a demonstration weapon to scare the Japanese government. He faced a near revolt among his own physicists at Los Alamos in 1945, he says. "He had convinced himself that this was a necessity," writes Robert Schlossberg.

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