Kai Bird on Robert Oppenheimer & Tactical Nuclear Weapons

Guest: Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin). His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA.  He is a contributing editor for the Nation, his latest piece can be found here Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine: Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.

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Guest: Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin). His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA.  He is a contributing editor for the Nation, his latest piece can be found here Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine: Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.

Feature photo: Wikimedia

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