American Prometheus [electronic resource] : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai2006
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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.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Blackstone Publishing, 2006
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781483077338
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English
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3633973
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