{"id":165571,"date":"2023-06-11T16:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/oppenheimer-with-robert-j-sawyer"},"modified":"2023-06-11T16:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T21:22:43","slug":"oppenheimer-with-robert-j-sawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/oppenheimer-with-robert-j-sawyer","title":{"rendered":"Oppenheimer \u2014 with Robert J. Sawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zn4GeHHPkwE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer talks about Oppenheimer and about his Alternate History book: The Oppenheimer Alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Where to find \u2018The Oppenheimer Alternative\u201d book?<br \/> Robert J. Sawyer\u2019s website: <a href=\"https:\/\/sfwriter.com\">https:\/\/sfwriter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Trinity moment \u2014 AI vs. Nuclear.<br \/> * \u2018Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds\u2019<br \/> * The Jewish connection to the Manhattan project and the Nazi nuclear program.<br \/> * Nuking Japan.<br \/> * Oppenheimer personality.<br \/> * Nuclear as a Double Edge Sword. Existential risk of a nuclear Holocaust.<br \/> * Thermonuclear \u2014 the rivalry with Edward Teller.<br \/> * Alternate History \u2014 the end of the world by 2030<br \/> * Military driven science vs. science driven by scientists.<br \/> * Nuclear energy in space.<br \/> * The Orion project \u2014 Nuclear Impales propulsion.<br \/> * Controversy of Wernher von Braun.<br \/> * Role of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Channel inks:<br \/> Quora blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacefaringcivilization.quora.com\/\">https:\/\/spacefaringcivilization.quora.com\/<\/a><br \/> Amazon Author page: <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/author\/ronfriedman\">http:\/\/amazon.com\/author\/ronfriedman<\/a>.<br \/> My Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/ronsfriedman.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/ronsfriedman.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How to support the channel:<br \/> Get $5 in NDAX (Canadian Crypto Exchange): <a href=\"https:\/\/refer.ndax.io\/vm1j\">https:\/\/refer.ndax.io\/vm1j<\/a>.<br \/> Buy Escape Velocity short stories collection:<br \/> Support with Ethereum or Plygon donation: sciandscifi.nft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer talks about Oppenheimer and about his Alternate History book: The Oppenheimer Alternative. Where to find \u2018The Oppenheimer Alternative\u201d book? Robert J. Sawyer\u2019s website: https:\/\/sfwriter.com. * Trinity moment \u2014 AI vs. Nuclear. * \u2018Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds\u2019 * The Jewish connection to the Manhattan project [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761,12,9,873,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}