And just to be clear, if it's not clear, we're talking about, J. And as part of the sort of complicated times.īillings: Complicated times. I think he's a pretty complicated character, and I'm interested in him as a complicated character. I haven't sort of internalized him as my hero subject. I'm not a biographer of Oppenheimer, so I'm not like, in love with Oppenheimer. I've been thinking about Oppenheimer a long, long, long time and trying to make sense of him. I take some credit for essentially finding the the the unredacted versions of the security hearing transcript, which had been mislabeled and misfiled by the National Archives.Īnd I found them on a sort of on a lucky check. And so it's a little odd to watch a movie about someone you've spent a lot of time reading their letters, their FBI files, their security hearing transcripts. I've been sort of thinking about Oppenheimer as a person and his history for about 20 years. Tell us a little more about about what you know about Oppenheimer, what your relationship to Oppenheimer is and how that influenced how you viewed this movie. And it blew our socks off in more ways than one. ![]() And Alex, welcome to the program.Īlex Wellerstein: I'm really glad to be here.īillings: We're going to be talking about Christopher Nolan's new film, Oppenheimer, which Alex and I both saw at a prescreening event a few days ago. Alex is a nuclear historian and professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the author of the 2021 book Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States. I'm very pleased to welcome Alex Wellerstein to Cosmos, Quickly. In this episode, we're talking with a nuclear historian about the new Christopher Nolan blockbuster, Oppenheimer, a film about one of the most complex and tragic figures of the early atomic age. ![]() Lee Billings: This is Cosmos, Quickly, and I'm Lee Billings.
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