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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 Ambivalence

Robert Oppenheimer's last secretary at Los Alamos was still alive. She said she heard him muttering to himself after the Trinity test in 1945. He knew it was going to be used, but he also felt empathy for victims of atomic bomb attack on Japan. "He is very complicated, and he is highly intelligent," says historian Peter Bergen.

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