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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy


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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy

 
 J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy

J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy  J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century 2005 by David C. Cassidy

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Publisher:  Pi Press 2005
ISBN 10 0131479962
ISBN 13 9780131479968
462 pages -- Approx. size: 9.5" by 6.5"

At the heart of that story is J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project that built theatomic bomb. He was a man of contradictions: a scientist who discovered black holes and then turned his back on cutting edge research; a gentle liberalhumanist responsible for the creation of the first real weapon of mass destruction; a genius who founded "scientific militarism" and then let it destroy him.

"Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

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