by Heinar Kipphardt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518100646
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«In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer» is the stage play by Heinar Kipphardt, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (144 pages, in German).
The play reconstructs the trial to which J. Robert Oppenheimer was subjected in the McCarthy era and dramatizes the physicist's conflict between his duty to humanity and his loyalty to the US government. Using documents and transcripts, Kipphardt raises the moral dilemmas of the scientist and the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project.
Subtitled «Schauspiel», it is part of the Edition Suhrkamp series (no. 64) and was first published in 1964.
Aimed at those interested in documentary theater, the figure of Oppenheimer, and ethical debates on science and power during the Cold War.
