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Bird, Kai, author

American Prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer / Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2005.

New York : Vintage Books, 2006.

©2004

xiii, 721 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

xiii, 721 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.

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.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.

Physicists -- United States -- Biography.

Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.

Science -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology

HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare

HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century

SCIENCE / History

United States -- History -- 20th century.

Biographies.

Sherwin, Martin J., author

Triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

2006 Pulitzer prize winner for Biography.

National Books Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, 2007

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