Virginie Girod SEASON 2022 - 202315h38, 03 April 2023
Listen to the untold story of Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, told by Virginie Girod in a two-part episode. Robert Oppenheimer is an American physicist, one of the geniuses of science of the twentieth century. Very early, the young Robert developed a passion for books and science. An accomplished physicist, Robert Oppenheimer knows the torments of a love without a dead end: that with Jean Tatlock. This woman psychologist introduced him to communism. In 1943, in the middle of World War II and despite his affinity with communism, Robert Oppenheimer was appointed scientific director of the "Manhattan" Project by the American army. General Leslie Richard Groves placed him at the head of this project to develop .... the atomic bomb: the first in the history of the United States! "Au Cœur de l'Histoire" is a Europe 1 Studio production.
Topics covered: atomic bomb - United States - USSR - World War II - Cold War - Physics - Chemistry - Manhattan Project - FBI - communism - Harry Truman - Hiroshima - Nagasaki
At the heart of history" is a Europe 1 Studio podcast.
Writing and presentation: Virginie Girod
- Producer: Adèle Humbert
- Artistic direction: Adèle Humbert and Julien Tharaud
- Director: Clément Ibrahim
- Original music: Julien Tharaud
- Additional music: Julien Tharaud and Sébastien Guidis
- Communication: Kelly Decroix
- Distribution and writing: Eloise Bertil
- Visual: Sidonie Mangin
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