The birth of Armageddon. The first H-bomb detonates and theproud father is Edward Teller. But he’s on a collision course withRobert Oppenheimer, the inventor of the bomb that obliteratedHiroshima. Now Oppenheimer has turned pacifist and the governmentwill stop at nothing to “neutralize” him. And Teller is their starwitness!
Includes an interview with Richard Rhodes, America’s preeminenthistorian of the nuclear age. He is the author of the PulitzerPrize-winning book The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and its companionbook, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. In addition toediting or authoring more than twenty other books, Rhodes has beena visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and has testified before theU.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring JordanBaker, Corey Brill, John de Lancie, Reed Diamond, J. Michael Flynn,Raphael Sbarge, Joe Spano, Matt St. James, Simon Templeman,Granville Van Dusen, Geoffrey Wade and Margaret Welsh.
This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Seriesfeaturing science-themed plays. Major funding for the RelativitySeries is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhancepublic understanding of science and technology in the modernworld.
DURATION: About a 2.25 hour performance.