Series from 1980
| Duration: | 3600 min |
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Traces the life of the nuclear physicist from his years spent developing the atomic bomb to his eventual ousting from the US Atomic Energy Commission.
Robert Oppenheimer meets and decides to marry the hard-drinking, much-divorced Kitty.
Oppenheimer is put in charge of the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer's relationship with the neurotic Jean Tatlock comes to a tragic end.
With the death of President Roosevelt, the future of the Manhattan Project seems doubtful.
The dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki bring the war to an end.
A few years after the war, Oppenheimer finds himself regarded as a security risk.
