Intellectual History: THE TRIALS OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. PBS Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model

Whitman’s Hitler’s American Model

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Intellectual History: THE TRIALS OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER. PBS Whitman’s Hitler’s American ModelThe Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer Film Description J. Robert Oppenheimer was brilliant, arrogant, proud, charismatic and a national hero. Under his leadership during World War II, the United States succeeded in becoming the first nation to harness the power of nuclear energy to create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America