This event is hosted by the Center for Collaborative History and co-sponsored by the Council on Science and Technology and the Program on Science and Global Security.

We are pleased to announce a special screening of the movie, Oppenheimer, followed by a brief discussion with Professor Michael D. Gordin and Professor Sharon K. Weiner.

Friday, July 21, 2023
12:30 p.m. | Princeton Garden Theatre
160 Nassau St, Princeton, NJ 08542

Tickets for those associated with the Department of History and invited guests can be reserved by emailing Jennifer Loessy at [email protected]. Due to limited seating, we are not able to extend an offer of tickets to the broader campus community.

Directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. This film stars Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer. Watch trailer. 

Professor Michael D. Gordin is the Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, a Professor of History, and the Director of the  Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University. Gordin specializes in the history of the modern physical sciences and Russian, European, and American history. He has worked extensively in the early history of nuclear weapons, and is the author of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (Princeton, 2007), a history of the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, and an international history of nuclear intelligence, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (FSG, 2009), as well as co-editor (with G. John Ikenberry) of The Age of Hiroshima (Princeton, 2020).

Sharon K. Weiner is a visiting researcher from American University where she is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service. A 2018 Carnegie Fellow, she is also the recipient of a Nuclear Challenge Grant from the MacArthur Foundation (2015-2016) and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security (2014-2015). Her book Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise (MIT Press, 2011) was the winner of the 2012 Louis Brownlow award from the National Academy of Public Administration. She also is the author of the book Managing the Military: The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Civil-Military Relations (Columbia University Press, 2022). Sharon has worked in both houses of Congress, the Pentagon’s Joint Staff Strategic Plans and Policy directorate, and as a program examiner with the National Security Division at the White House Office of Management and Budget. She holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT.

For more information on Robert Oppenheimer, we invite you to read the article "Robert Oppenheimer: The Princeton Years" by Anne Levin (Princeton Magazine, Spring 2023, pages 14-17).