The pandemic lockdown, along with a boom in programs about cults and the connection of survivors through social media, prompted many to reexamine their relationships with their tight-knit groups and
On this Edition of Conversations, Robert J. Lifton talks with host Dan Skinner about \“Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic.\”
Oppenheimer pushed for arms control, playing the key role in drafting 1946’s Acheson-Lilienthal Report, a radical proposal that called for atomic energy to be placed under the control of the United Nations.
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s triumph was his tragedy. Oppenheimer had many achievements in theoretical physics but is remembered as the so-called father of the atomic bomb. Under his directorship, scientists at