Bonuscast! Oppenheimer: Fallout

Origin Story

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary, History

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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… Support Origin Story on Patreon for more bonus episodes: www.Patreon.com/originstorypod 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. https://twitter.com/OriginStorycast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.6	financial circumstances and borrowing history, T's and C's apply. Hello, welcome to Origin Story.
0:41.7	I'm Dorian Linsky.
0:43.1	And I'm Ian Dunn.
0:43.8	This is a bonus episode.
0:45.0	It's not just for patrons.
0:46.3	It's for everybody because we thought that this was one of the discussion topics of the summer.
0:52.5	It's the movie Oppenheimer, directed by Christopher Nolan,
0:56.0	which is a very useful hybrid of our nuclear war episodes
0:59.1	and our McCarthyism episode.
1:01.0	The whole thing did feel like a live action origin story.
1:04.2	It really did.
1:05.1	It really did.
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