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About the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) and his role in producing the first atomic bomb. As a young man he was a committed anti-fascist, but the authorities conveniently forgot this during the war when he was made director of Los Alamos Laboratories, where the bomb was secretly designed and assembled. Archive footage shows the actual tests in the desert. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki the scientists began to realise something of the horror of what they had created and Oppenheimer campaigned against the hydrogen bomb. Finally in 1954 an ill-conceived security hearing brought his career to a sudden and tragic end.
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