Summer Friday: Oppenheimer | 2023 | News

Summer Friday: The Left's Way Forward; Why Some Young People Carry Guns; Oppenheimer; 'The Sandwich'; Hair Braiding.”
The Brian Lehrer Show | WNCY
Sen. Bernie Sanders with reporters as senators rush to the chamber for votes ahead of the recess, facing standoffs on infrastructure, police and voting reform and a Jan. 6 commission.

SSP alum Fred Kaplan, Slate's War Stories columnist and the author of many books, including The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon & Schuster, 2020), draws on his expertise in nuclear history to discuss whether Christopher Nolan's epic new film Oppenheimer is historically accurate - plus reveals a little-known political controversy within the other big new movie, Barbie.