American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture OPPENHEIMERKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11. apr. 2006 - 784 síður THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 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. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative. “A masterful account of Oppenheimer’s rise and fall, set in the context of the turbulent decades of America’s own transformation. It is a tour de force.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “A work of voluminous scholarship and lucid insight, unifying its multifaceted portrait with a keen grasp of Oppenheimer’s essential nature.... It succeeds in deeply fathoming his most damaging, self-contradictory behavior.” —The New York Times |
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Prologue | 3 |
He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful | 9 |
Bohr Was God and Oppie Was His Prophet | 268 |
The Impact of the Gadget on Civilization | 277 |
Now Were All SonsofBitches | 290 |
Those Poor Little People | 313 |
People Could Destroy New York | 336 |
Oppie Had a Rash and Is Now Immune | 351 |
PART FIVE | 485 |
A Manifestation of Hysteria | 523 |
A Black Mark on the Escutcheon of Our Country | 538 |
His Separate Prison | 566 |
It Should Have Been Done the Day After Trinity | 574 |
Theres Only One Robert | 589 |
Notes | 601 |
6 | 610 |
An Intellectual Hotel | 369 |
He Couldnt Understand Why He Did It | 391 |
He Never Let On What His Opinion Was | 416 |
Dark Words About Oppie | 431 |
Scientist X | 454 |
The Beast in the Jungle | 462 |
Frank Clipped It Out and Sent It | 619 |
We Were Pulling the New Deal to the Left | 626 |
Too Much Secrecy | 633 |
Bibliography | 685 |
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