Season 1 þættir (7)
1 Episode 1
29.10.80
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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
5.11.80
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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
12.11.80
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Oppenheimer's extra-marital relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.
4 Episode 4
19.11.80
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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
26.11.80
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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
3.12.80
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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
10.12.80
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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.
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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?