This episode is about the book American Prometheus, a biography of J Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J Sherwin. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is being made into a feature film by Christopher Nolan.

Related stuff:

• The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
• The Missed Chance to Stop the H-Bomb by McGeorge Bundy in the New York Review of Books
• Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Bomb by Ronald Takaki

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