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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer - And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race (Paperback)
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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer - And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race (Paperback)
Series: Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs
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The true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert
Oppenheimer, America's most famous scientist. On April 12, 1954,
the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was
facing charges of violating national security. Could the director
of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the effort to build
the atom bomb, really be a traitor? In this riveting book,
bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly
declassified U.S. government documents and materials from Russia,
as well as in-depth interviews, to expose for the first time the
conspiracy that destroyed one of America's most illustrious
scientists. McMillan recreates the fraught years from 1949 to 1955
when Oppenheimer and a group of liberal scientists tried to head
off the cabal of hard-line air force officials, anti-Communist
politicians, and rival scientists, including physicist Edward
Teller, who were trying to seize control of U.S. policy and build
ever more deadly nuclear weapons. Retelling the story of
Oppenheimer's trial, which took place in utmost secrecy, she
describes how the government made up its own rules and violated
many protections of the rule of law. She also argues that the
effort to discredit Oppenheimer, occurring at the height of the
McCarthy era and sanctioned by a misinformed President Eisenhower,
was a watershed in the Cold War, poisoning American politics for
decades and creating dangers that haunt us today. A chilling tale
of McCarthy-era machinations, this groundbreaking page-turner
rewrites the history of the Cold War.
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