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ATHE TRIALS OF OPPENHEIMER 9pm, BBC4 David Strathairn picked up an Oscarnomination playing Edward R Murrow, the TV journalist who stood up to Senator McCarthy in the acclaimed movie Good Night, and Good Luck. He's on similar ground in this dramadocumentary, in which he stars as scientist J Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the project that developed the first atomic bomb. He clearly had mixed feelings about his creation, as he would later use his position with the Atomic Energy Commission to try to prevent a nuclear arms race. However, his stance proved unpopular, and he was later put on trial for supposed communist sympathies.See the full content of this document
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