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J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke about the atomic bomb in a 1965 interview with CBS News and Mike Wallace. Photo Credit: CBS News Archive

CBS NEWS ARCHIVES: Robert Oppenheimer discusses the atomic bomb in 1965…

In 1965, J. Robert Oppenheimer sat down with CBS News reporter Mike Wallace, in part of that interview, provided by CBS News archives, Wallace asks Oppenheimer if he thinks the use of the bomb was necessary, to which Oppenheimer gives him an honest answer. Oppenheimer is considered the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” and lead the top secret Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory to develope an atomic bomb and end World War II.

Oppenheimer discusses the war and what lead up to the U.S. Government recruiting him to develop the atom bomb, and discribes what the war had been like since 1939, and while the results were so devestating, why the develpment and use was needed to end the war. Oppenheimer notably struggled with his decision decades after he changed the course of history, science, and the look of war in the future.

J. Robert Oppenheimer in his office at the Institute for Advanced Study. Photo Credit: Google Images

You can watch part of that CBS News Interview with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Mike Wallace below:

Directed by Christopher Nolan, Screenplay by Christopher Nolan, Based on "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird, and Martin J. Sherwin, Produced by Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan, Starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, with Cinematography by Hoyte van Hoytema, and Edited by Jennifer Lame, with Music by Ludwig Göransson, Production companies: Syncopy Inc., and Atlas Entertainment, Distributed by Universal Pictures (2023)

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