Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt (TRIH ep 344, part 2)
1945 · Resource
This episode (the second part of a two-part survey) examines J. Robert Oppenheimer's life after the Trinity test and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Oppenheimer's mixed responses—public acclaim, private anguish, and a turn toward internationalism—his fraught meeting with President Truman, and the growing Cold War context that shaped US policy.
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Around 1945
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)