Summary

One in this series of current events documentary programs, hosted by Edward R. Murrow. One of the series of programs which explores contemporary issues. Murrow devotes this program to J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. They discuss problems relating both to the institute and to the society at large including: the membership of the institute, the relationship between science and government, the possibility of mankind destroying itself, and the problem of having to live with ignorance.