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Inside The Centre - The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
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J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important
figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos
Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to
develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have
eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father
of the Bomb'. But his was not a simple story of assimilation,
scientific success and world fame. A complicated and fragile
personality, the implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos were
to weigh heavily upon him. Having formed suspicious connections in
the 1930s, in the wake of the Allied victory in World War Two,
Oppenheimer's attempts to resist the escalation of the Cold War
arms race would lead many to question his loyalties - and set him
on a collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch
hunters.
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