Oppenheimer

1980

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Season 1 episodes (7)

1 Episode 1

80-10-29

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Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty, although his friends and relatives dislike her.

2 Episode 2

80-11-05

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Oppenheimer is now in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project, but his left-wing politics mean that he is constantly watched by the FBI and others.

3 Episode 3

80-11-12

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Oppenheimer's extra-marital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.

4 Episode 4

80-11-19

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With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful. Oppenheimer finds himself more and more at loggerheads with Teller.

5 Episode 5

80-11-26

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The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring the war to an end, but Oppenheimer's new status as a national hero is short-lived.

6 Episode 6

80-12-03

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A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk, and must face a committee.

7 Episode 7

80-12-10

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Oppenheimer's examination by the committee proves disastrous and his career with the A.E.C. is finished, whilst that of his rival Teller flourishes.

About this show

Sam Waterston stars in this BAFTA award-winning story of the nuclear scientist whose brainchild, the atomic bomb, brought a devastating end to the Second World War. Within years he was declared a security risk by the American government, only to be awarded with the highest honour in his field by a subsequent presidency. Were the Americans trying to placate an uneasy conscience?