My Oppenheimer Moment: The Teacher, the Hypnotist, and the Destroyer of Worlds

by James Westhoff I’m on my bike, slowly climbing up Palos Verdes Drive East towards the radar domes. It’s 8 a.m. and already very hot. I have an audiobook playing on my external speaker – American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. It’s not exactly “Eye of the Tiger,” but I’m riveted. […]