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000305022 1001_ $$aBird, Kai.
000305022 24510 $$aAmerican Prometheus :$$bthe triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer /$$cby Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.
000305022 24630 $$aTriumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
000305022 250__ $$a1st ed.
000305022 260__ $$aNew York :$$bA.A. Knopf,$$c2005.
000305022 300__ $$axiii, 721 p., [32] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000305022 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [685]-699) and index.
000305022 5050_ $$aI: "He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful" -- "His separate prison" -- "I am having a pretty bad time" -- "I find the work hard. Thank God, & almost pleasant" -- "I am Oppenheimer" -- "Oppie" -- "The nim nim boys" -- II: "In 1936 my interests began to change" -- "[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in" -- "More and more surely" -- "I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve" -- "We were pulling the new deal to the left" -- "The coordinator of rapid rupture" -- "The Chevalier affair" -- III: "He'd become very patriotic" -- "Too much secrecy" -- "Oppenheimer is telling the truth..." -- "Suicide, motive unknown" -- "Would you like to adopt her? '' "Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet" -- "The impact of the gadget on civilization" -- "Now we're all sons-of-bitches" -- IV: "Those poor little people" -- "I feel I have blood on my hands" -- "People could destroy New York" -- "Oppie had a rash and is not immune" -- "An intellectual hotel" -- "He couldn't understand why he did it" -- "I am sure that is why she threw things at him" -- "He never let on what his opinion was" -- "Dark words about Oppie" -- "Scientist X" -- "The beast in the jungle" -- V: "It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?" -- "I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy" -- "A manifestation of hysteria" -- "A black mark on the Escutcheon of our country" -- "I can still feel the warm blood on my hands" -- "It was really like a never-never-land" -- "It should have been done the day after trinity" -- "There's only one Robert".
000305022 520__ $$aThe first full-scale biography of the "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the fire of the sun for his country in time of war. After Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation--an icon of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress. He created a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force's plans to fight a nuclear war. In the hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and people such as Edward Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to obtain a finding that he could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. This book is both biography and history, significant to our understanding of our recent past--and of our choices for the future.
000305022 586__ $$aPulitzer Prize, 2006.
000305022 60010 $$aOppenheimer, J. Robert,$$d1904-1967.
000305022 650_0 $$aPhysicists$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000305022 650_0 $$aAtomic bomb$$zUnited States$$xHistory.
000305022 650_0 $$aScience$$xPolitical aspects$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000305022 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000305022 7001_ $$aSherwin, Martin J.
000305022 85200 $$bgen$$hQC16.O62$$iB57$$i2005
000305022 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy053/2004061535.html
000305022 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061535-b.html
000305022 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061535-d.html
000305022 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004061535-s.html
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