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Explicitly mentioned as the Pulitzer Prize-winning book that inspired Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer film. The hosts discuss how the title references the Prometheus myth as a metaphor for Oppenheimer's story.

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Referenced as 'the great Indian epic' that Oppenheimer famously quoted from after witnessing the atomic bomb test, specifically the Bhagavad Gita portion.

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Mentioned as the source of Oppenheimer's famous quote 'now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds' - described as part of the Mahabharata that Oppenheimer studied in Sanskrit.

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Mentioned humorously when discussing young Oppenheimer's unusual interests at summer camp - he was 'completely obsessed with George Eliot' and 'really into Middlemarch' as a teenager.

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Mentioned in the context of Oppenheimer's political awakening - 'in the same year that he met her, he started reading Das Kapital' referring to his relationship with Jean Tatlock.

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Explicitly mentioned as a book Oppenheimer's father gave him, described as 'the sort of book that people bash the British left with when they say they were soft on communism in the 1930s.'