Why America Betrayed Oppenheimer

Refugee scientists gave America the bomb…then America turned on science. But why?
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Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled from Germany, as anti-Jewish laws proliferated. America welcomed many of them, and this openness gave the country the tools it needed to win the race for the bomb.

Unfortunately, though, it wouldn’t be long after victory in WWII that America set its sights on a new enemy: communism. Despite their enormous service to the country, many scientists were swept up in the anti-communist crusade and betrayed…including Oppenheimer.

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00:00 Intro
00:58 Preface
03:01 I - THE PURGE
07:18 II - THE RACE BEGINS
10:18 III - MANHATTAN
19:00 IV - THE NEW WORLD