{"id":26962,"date":"2023-07-21T07:42:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T05:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=236269"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:11:36","slug":"oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppenheimer: \u201cdestroyer of worlds\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> To mark the release of new blockbuster Oppenheimer, biographer Kai Bird discusses the life of the genius physicist who invented the atom bomb <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Elinor Evans\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">2023-07-21 05:42:11<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>When the atom bomb was dropped in 1945, how did its inventor, J Robert Oppenheimer, feel? To mark the release of Christopher Nolan\u2019s new blockbuster <em>Oppenheimer<\/em>, biographer Kai Bird joins Elinor Evans to discuss the man behind the creation of nuclear weaponry, and the difficult moral and political questions that dogged the genius physicist throughout his life.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-236269-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/oppenheimerdestroyerofworlds-a13b72b.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/oppenheimerdestroyerofworlds-a13b72b.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/07\/oppenheimerdestroyerofworlds-a13b72b.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kai Bird is the co-author with Martin Sherwin of <em>American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/american-prometheus-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-j-robert-oppenheimer-kai-bird\/8526472&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer\/dp\/183895970X\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1689331913&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/american-prometheus\/kai-bird\/martin-j-sherwin\/9781838959708&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> To mark the release of new blockbuster Oppenheimer, biographer Kai Bird discusses the life of the genius physicist who invented the atom bomb <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":26963,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/07\/oppenheimer-destroyer-of-worlds.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"To mark the release of new blockbuster Oppenheimer, biographer Kai Bird discusses the life of the genius physicist who invented the atom bomb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/26962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}