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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

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Oppenheimer: A Lab Director With a Divided Self

Oppenheimer was a man with a very divided self and an insecure self. He could never decide whether he wanted to be president of the Knights of Columbus or Benet Berith. Oppenheimer wasn't sent to a Jewish school. The German Jews who came over before and after the First World War were westernized. They were not from the shuttles of the Pale of Settlement of the Eastern European Jews.

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