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Sep 2023
52m 22s

Oppenheimer: Birth of the Atomic Age wit...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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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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