Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (TRIH eps 343-344)
1942–1945 · Resource
A two-part series on J. Robert Oppenheimer: his upbringing, education and central role in the Manhattan Project, then his life after Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1942
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- World War II (1939)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Korean War (1950)