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Nature 456, 39 (6 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/456039a; Published online 5 November 2008
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Q&A: Opera for the end of the world
Jascha Hoffman
Abstract
The dawn of the nuclear era finds its voice in Doctor Atomic, an opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the making of the first atom bomb. With a new production showing in New York, composer John Adams explains how physicists have reacted to the work, and how writing it has changed his view of nuclear weapons.
What is the setting for the opera?It mainly takes place during the night leading up to the detonation of the first atomic bomb, code-named the Trinity test, in New Mexico on the morning of 16 July 1945.
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