Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside The Center

An unforgettable story of discovery and unimaginable destruction and a major biography of one of America?? most brilliant??nd most divisive??cientists, Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center vividly illuminates the man who would go down in history as ??he father of the atomic bomb.????mpressive. . . . An extraordinary story.??€?he New York Times Book Review ??udicious, comprehensive and reliable. . . . By far the most thorough survey yet written of Oppenheimer?? physics."??ashington Post Oppenheimer?? talent and drive secured him a place in the pantheon of great physicists and carried him to the laboratories where the secrets of the universe revealed themselves. But they also led him to contribute to the development of the deadliest weapon on earth, a discovery he soon came to fear. His attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War arms race??oupled with political leanings at odds with post-war America??ed many to question his loyalties, and brought down upon him the full force of McCarthyite anti-communism. Digging deeply into Oppenheimer?? past to solve the enigma of his motivations and his complex personality, Ray Monk uncovers the extraordinary, charming, tortured man??nd the remarkable mind??ho fundamentally reshaped the world. 9780385722049 0385722044 882 BOOK Biography & Autobiography NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=FE6NDQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Ray Monk
• | Publisher: Anchor
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 880 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0385722044
• | ISBN-13: 9780385722049