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By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Oppenheimer: Birth of the Atomic Age with Kai Bird

S14 E54

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Published September 05, 2023 2:00am

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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