COVER STORY
The Bomb
Kurt Andersen talks with Richard Rhodes about how living with the threat of nuclear annihilation changed our culture.

Oppenheimer
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer led a team of thousands to create the first nuclear weapon. He was immediately hailed as an American hero, but after speaking out against the use of the bomb he was condemned as a traitor and maligned as a Communist spy. WNYC’s Sara Fishko examines how the epic and tragic arc of his life has turned Oppenheimer into a modern American myth.
Go to the Dr. Atomic website
Go to an online exhibit about J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hear J. Robert Oppenheimer speak about The Bomb
View original documents from The Manhattan Project
Buy a book on J. Robert Oppenheimer

Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick set out to make a serious drama about an accidental nuclear war, and ended up making the blackest comedy ever, Dr. Strangelove. Studio 360’s Arun Rath explains how the bizarre, over-the-top parody of Dr. Strangelove was actually closer to reality than any of us would care to believe.
Read the screenplay of Dr. Strangelove
Go to an article on Dr. Strangelove
Buy the Special Edition of Dr. Strangelove on DVD
Buy Fred Kaplan's book, The Wizards of Armageddon
Buy books by Herman Kahn

SPECIAL GUEST
Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his definitive history: The Making of the Atomic Bomb. His other books include Dark Sun, about the making of the hydrogen bomb, and Masters of Death, about a Nazi task force that executed over 1.5 million people. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and is currently working on a history of nuclear issues since the end of the Cold War.
Buy books by Richard Rhodes
Read an interview with Richard Rhodes

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Zadie Smith
Kurt Andersen talks with literary superstar Zadie Smith. Smith's debut White Teeth, published when she was just 24, tells a complex and vivid story of two London families over 18 years. Her new novel On Beauty tackles racial, ethnic, and class identity with humor and intensity.
Go to an article on Zadie Smith
Buy Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty

Aha! Lar Lubovitch
One of the big names in American dance, Lar Lubovitch was a painter until he saw a performance by the late Jose Limon. It turned him into a choreographer on the spot. Produced by Ann Hepperman and Kara Oehler
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Go to the Jose Limon Dance Company

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