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Oppenheimer: Birth of the Atomic Age with Kai Bird
Season 14 · Episode 54

Oppenheimer: Birth of the Atomic Age with Kai Bird

If someone else led the Manhattan Project, would it have gone differently? Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s film, and the creation of the atomic bomb with biographer Kai Bird.

StarTalk Radio · Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kai Bird

September 5, 202352m 22s

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Show Notes

If someone else led the Manhattan Project, would it have gone differently? Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s film, and the creation of the atomic bomb with biographer Kai Bird.

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