American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Couverture rigide

Bird, Kai; Sherwin, Martin J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184354704X ISBN 13 : 9781843547044

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2008

Synopsis

Physicist and polymath, 'father of the atom bomb' J. Robert Oppenheimer was the most famous scientist of his generation. Already a notable young physicist before WWII, during the race to split the atom, 'Oppie' galvanized an extraordinary team of international scientists while keeping the FBI at bay. As the man who more than any other inaugurated the atomic age, he became one of the iconic figures of the last century, the embodiment of his own observation that 'physicists have known sin'. Years later, haunted by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer became a staunch opponent of plans to develop the hydrogen bomb. It was a battle he was to lose, faced by powerful advocates for massive nuclear profusion. In response, the US Atomic Energy Commission and the FBI worked behind the scenes to have a hearing find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. American Prometheus is a compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious and flawed man and his involevement in some of the major events of the twentieth century. It is at once biography and history, essential to our understanding of our recent past - and our atomic future.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

A contributing editor at the Nation, Kai Bird is the author of several biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize winner American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Atlantic 2008) with Martin J. Sherwin. He lives in Washington, D.C. and Nepal with his wife and son.

Martin J. Sherwin is Professor of History at Tufts University abd University Professor at George Mason University. He is the author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and its Legacies and, with Kai Bird, of the Pulitzer Prize winner American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Atlantic 2008). He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 184354704X
• ISBN 13: 9781843547044
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 736
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible