Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (TRIH ep 343, part 1)
1942 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History (part one of a multi-part look at Oppenheimer) traces Julius Robert "J. Robert" Oppenheimer’s life from his privileged New York upbringing through his intellectual development and central role in the Manhattan Project.
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)