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When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense
contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America's atomic
past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer,
the father of the atomic bomb. The result, ""Oppenheimer Is
Watching Me"", takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab
coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national
security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries,
Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a
generation. All the figures in this masterful work are caught in a
web of coincidences and paranoias, the chapters strewn with the
icons of American material culture of a bygone era - vintage
Pontiacs, Fizzie sodas, Geiger counters, latex girdles, and, of
course, Fat Man and Little Boy. Readers also encounter noteworthy
figures from the era, including Francis Gary Powers, whose U2 spy
plane was shot out from under him in the skies over the Soviet
Union, and Fidel Castro, whom the CIA plotted to kill or, at least,
strip of his beard. Seamlessly weaving historical events played out
on a grand stage with day-to-day activities of childhood,
""Oppenheimer Is Watching Me"" is a heady mix of personal memoir
and cold war history.
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