American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Tracklist

• 1
  Title
  1:16
• 2
  Preface
  13:08
• 3
  Introduction
  9:14
• 4
  Part I
  0:03
• 5
  Chapter 1. 'He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful'
  55:16
• 6
  Chapter 2. 'His separate prison'
  30:39
• 7
  Chapter 3. 'I am having a pretty bad time'
  41:05
• 8
  Chapter 4. 'I find the work hard. Thank God, & almost pleasant'
  32:40
• 9
  Chapter 5. 'I am Oppenheimer'
  31:36
• 10
  Chapter 6. 'Oppie'
  38:04
• 11
  Chapter 7. 'The nim nim boys'
  40:10
• 12
  PART II
  0:03
• 13
  Chapter 8. 'In 1936 my interests began to change'
  47:18
• 14
  Chapter 9. '[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in'
  40:43
• 15
  Chapter 10. 'More and more surely'
  25:26
• 16
  Chapter 11. 'I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve'
  36:41
• 17
  Chapter 12. 'We were pulling the new deal to the left'
  34:53
• 18
  Chapter 13. 'The coordinator of rapid rupture'
  41:13
• 19
  Chapter 14. 'The Chevalier affair'
  16:51
• 20
  PART III
  0:04
• 21
  Chapter 15. 'He'd become very patriotic'
  50:36
• 22
  Chapter 16. 'Too much secrecy'
  35:32
• 23
  Chapter 17. 'Oppenheimer is telling the truth...'
  33:38
• 24
  Chapter 18. 'Suicide, motive unknown'
  16:19
• 25
  Chapter 19. 'Would you like to adopt her... '
  35:14
• 26
  Chapter 20. 'Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet'
  23:02
• 27
  Chapter 21. 'The impact of the gadget on civilization'
  35:45
• 28
  Chapter 22. 'Now we're all sons-of-bitches'
  56:18
• 29
  PART IV
  0:03
• 30
  Chapter 23. 'Those poor little people'
  27:07
• 31
  Chapter 24. 'I feel I have blood on my hands'
  36:03
• 32
  Chapter 25. 'People could destroy New York'
  42:07
• 33
  Chapter 26. 'Oppie had a rash and is not immune'
  49:16
• 34
  Chapter 27. 'An intellectual hotel'
  62:48
• 35
  Chapter 28. 'He couldn't understand why he did it'
  42:53
• 36
  Chapter 29. 'I am sure that is why she threw things at him'
  28:02
• 37
  Chapter 30. 'He never let on what his opinion was'
  43:45
• 38
  Chapter 31. 'Dark words about Oppie'
  64:16
• 39
  Chapter 32. 'Scientist X'
  19:38
• 40
  Chapter 33. 'The beast in the jungle'
  65:06
• 41
  PART V
  0:02
• 42
  Chapter 34. 'It looks pretty bad, doesn't it...'
  29:32
• 43
  Chapter 35. 'I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy'
  67:33
• 44
  Chapter 36. 'A manifestation of hysteria'
  39:20
• 45
  Chapter 37. 'A black mark on the Escutcheon of our country'
  35:12
• 46
  Chapter 38. 'I can still feel the warm blood on my hands'
  41:39
• 47
  Chapter 39. 'It was really like a never-never-land'
  22:35
• 48
  Chapter 40. 'It should have been done the day after trinity'
  43:56
• 49
  Epilogue 'There is only one Robert'
  7:52
• 50
  End
  1:11

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