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Jan 2024
21m 48s

The Shadowy Story of Oppenheimer and Con...

The New York Times
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Nominations for the Oscars are announced on Tuesday and “Oppenheimer,” a film about the father of the atomic bomb, is expected to be among the front-runners. Catie Edmondson, a congressional correspondent for The Times, explains how the film sent her on a quest to find the secret story of how Congress paid for the bomb, and what it reveals about the inner wo ... Show More
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