Jul 2023

43m 4s

Oppenheimer’s Origin

SpyTalk, Jeff Stein

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Jeff Stein talks with Kai Bird, co-author of “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.”

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