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Oppenheimer & "Trinity" tests inspire new opera by Adams & Sellars

Fifty years after the U.S. tested the first atomic bomb, science and art collide in a new opera about that pivotal moment in history, by John Adams and Peter Sellars. "Weekend America" host Barbara Bogaev talks with science correspondent Rebecca Roberts about "Doctor Atomic" and the birth of the bomb.
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