Christopher Nolan has been generous enough to put together a full-on Origin Story film, combining key elements from the Nuclear War and McCarthyism episodes. So Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt put on their Oppenheimer cosplay outfits including suit trousers waisted up to the chest, and set off to the cinema to watch it. 

Here's what they had to say…

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Reading List: 

Luis Alvarez – Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist 

Martin Amis – Einstein’s Monsters 

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 

David C. Cassidy – J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi – The Worlds of Herman Kahn 

Herman Kahn – On Thermonuclear War 

William Lanouette – Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard 

William L. Laurence – Dawn Over Zero: The Story of the Atomic Bomb 

Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk - Indefensible Weapons 

Ronald Reagan – An American Life 

Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the Earth 

P.D. Smith – Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon 

H.G. Wells – The World Set Free 

The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, by Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey Michaels

The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski

Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production by Alex Rees, music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.

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