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American Prometheus the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer /

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a 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. In this biography twenty-five years in the mak...

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Main Author: Bird, Kai,
Other Authors: Sherwin, Martin J.,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
Physical Description: xiii, 721 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Edition: First Vintage books edition.
Subjects:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, -- 1904-1967.
Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
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  • "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"
  • "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"
  • "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"
  • "Those poor little people"
  • "I feel I have blood on my hands" - - "People could destroy New York"
  • "Oppie had a rash and is now 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"
  • "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"
  • Epilogue: "There's only one Robert."

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