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Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn’t

Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn’t

FromNew Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute


Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn’t

FromNew Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Oct 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode, Brandon Lisi reads aloud his article, “Rand and Oppenheimer: The Atomic Bomb Movie that Wasn't.” In that essay, he tells the story of Rand's work on "Top Secret," a movie about the invention of atomic bomb. Lisi explains Rand's perspective on the significance of such a movie as well as her intense research on the subject, including two interviews with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who served as scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory. Lisi's article was originally was originally published in New Ideal, the Ayn Rand Institute’s journal, on August 2, 2023.







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Released:
Oct 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The New Ideal Podcast features a curated selection of content from the pages of New Ideal, the journal of the Ayn Rand Institute. At New Ideal, we explore pressing cultural issues from the perspective of Rand’s philosophy: Objectivism, which upholds the ideals of reason, individualism and Capitalism.