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Reith Revisited: Brian Cox on Robert Oppenheimer

The Reith Lectures

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Are the Lectures More Relevant Now Than They Did in the Fifties?

I think these lectures will perhaps resonate more now than they did back then in the fifties. Many of the subjects and that the political ideas that he is criticising here are vivid now. But i think we can see very clearly now what he's trying to say, because we are all thinking about balance between seemingly different and contradictory ideas. Make sense? Perhaps it doesn't wel i tried to say it makes i so what was the bit that stood out to you most?

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