Oppenheimer: science, war, and moral responsibility

Oppenheimer: science, war, and moral responsibility

The Rest Is History episode “343. Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb” traces J. Robert Oppenheimer from brilliant, unstable young physicist to scientific leader of the Manhattan Project, emphasizing the moral tension between racing Nazi Germany, ending the war with Japan, sharing atomic knowledge, and becoming “death, the destroyer of worlds.”