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If you saw black characters on television, they were always gonna be subservient to allay white fears and to protect kind of white comfort. ethel waters was really the first black to have her own variety show. it was 1939, and later was hazel scott in 1950. but they did not last long on the tube. - so in 1956, we had the debut of "the nat king cole show." you had a smooth, suave, black man leading a variety show. ♪ oh, boy, im lucky ♪ ill say im lucky ♪ now this is my lucky day - so he was...

I mean, what would you do? i wouldve been on the next train. i dont think people thought that much about the consequences. you know, can we blame them? oppenheimer: we were all aware of the fact that, in one way or another, we were intervening explicitly and heavy-handedly in the course of human history. carr: by the time the laboratory was established, oppenheimer was a family man. he was married. he had a little boy. during his tenure as director at the laboratory, he had a little girl as well...

(crowd chanting in german) bird: in the 1930s, millions of americans were following the news coming out of europe in their local theaters, watching newsreels. and oppenheimer was horrified by the rise of hitler. nolan: his sense of his own jewishness made him immediately and massively aware of the danger of fascism. (bell tolling) bird: when the war started in 1939, he was a professor at berkeley. and that same year, one of his students comes rushing into his office to convey the news that fissi...

That was the part of his life. when he talks about what he loves, it was that human thing of passing knowledge around. this is negative particles, neutral, doubly charged, positive and positive... charles oppenheimer: his work on black holes should have earned him a nobel prize. sherwin: in 1939, oppenheimer wrote the first paper identifying the idea of collapsing stars, a black hole. so, black holes was his original idea. i mean, thats quite amazing. and if a real black hole had been identified...

Msnbc this weekend, what surprised do you? i think a lot of us have a knowledge of who robert oppenheimer is, of course, and a little bit about the story behind the race to build the bomb and two and world war ii. but what about the story did you find that you didnt know? you didnt realize? >> yeah. well, i think one thing that was interesting thats kind of an aside we talk about at the end was the fact that he essentially discovered black holes before they were actually discovered, which is som...

You have to think about the motivation for him doing this project in the first place which was he was a jew of german descent. 1939, the nazis discovered nuclear fission and we believed they had very much of a two-year head start on us in terms of going for the bomb. certainly nobody wanted to see hitler be the first to have an atomic weapon. that was the motivation for all the manhattan project scientists throughout the war. where it gets murky somewhere germanys defeated and the target shifts ...

Later this month. but beyond that, oppenheimers impact, his success in creating nuclear weapons and technology, it lives with us to this very day. there are lessons from his life that should be applied now in the 21st century. joining us now to discuss is that director of that documentary, to end all war: oppenheimer & the atomic bomb. it airs this sunday at ten pm eastern on msnbc. and it will be streaming the next day on peacock. christopher nolan, thank you so much for being with us. your doc...

What happened. it looks like the bogner group turned on russia and turned around went back to belarus. >> thank you for having me, the first thing i would say upfront, lets go back to winston churchill 1939 wrapped in an enigma, if anybody tells you whats going on they really dont. the group is a tough combat ready organization had fought in syria, and lost a lot of troops there, there is an open blood feud who leads the bogner group and also a leading russian general in ukraine in the joint chi...

What happened. it looks like the bogner group turned on russia and turned around went back to belarus. >> thank you for having me, the first thing i would say upfront, lets go back to winston churchill 1939 wrapped in an enigma, if anybody tells you whats going on they really dont. the group is a tough combat ready organization had fought in syria, and lost a lot of troops there, there is an open blood feud who leads the bogner group and also a leading russian general in ukraine in the joint chi...

I think yevgeny prigozhin was worried he was going to catch the car but he couldve taken moscow. something happened in between thats what he got a hold of sergei shoigu and belarus and then he pulled back. the question i got lets watch and see what happens with and what can happen. and also where did the formation go to. it could take a hard left and all of a sudden head towards belarus on the northern part of ukraine. we really dont know thats why went back to winston churchill 1939 and his com...