Trade paperback edition in. very good condition.
'‘The German calamity of years ago repeats itself: People acquiesce without resistance and align themselves with the forces of evil.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.
When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets.
In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.
Read Alikes for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes; The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
Trade paperback edition in. very good condition.
'‘The German calamity of years ago repeats itself: People acquiesce without resistance and align themselves with the forces of evil.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.
When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America’s nuclear secrets.
In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, which won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.
Read Alikes for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes; Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes; The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
ISBN 978-0-375-72626-2
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
2005
Pulitzer Prize Winner
