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The Rest Is History

344: Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt (Part 2)

The Rest Is History

Goalhanger

History

4.6 • 26.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Following the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and the end of the Second World War, Oppenheimer pushes for an international approach to nuclear power. This attitude towards nuclear secrets, alongside his history of close relationships with known communists, results in all his security clearances being revoked in 1954 after a public hearing. Join Tom and Dominic as they explore McCarthyism, American anti-communist hysteria, and Oppenheimer’s fall from grace. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.6

or the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come

1:05.7

when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima.

1:10.0

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

1:13.7

This war that has ravaged so much of the earth has written these words.

1:19.0

The atomic bomb has spelled them

1:24.0

in other men, in other times of other wars of other weapons.

1:28.0

They have not prevailed.

1:30.0

There are some misled by a full sense of history who hold that they will not prevail today.

1:35.0

It is not for us to believe that.

1:38.0

By our works, we are committed, committed to a world united before this common peril in law and in humanity.

1:48.0

So that Dominic was J Robert Oppenheimer talking in the wake of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1:59.6

as he was leaving Los Alamos, the headquarters of the Manhattan Project on 16th of October

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