num_pages: 384
description: A narrative based on newly declassified government documents and in-depth interviews describes the years during which scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and a group of scientists worked to prevent rivals from building more dangerous nuclear weapons only to become the victims of a McCarthy-era conspiracy. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer & the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
titlecomplete: The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer & the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
characters: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Lewis Strauss
genres: History, World War II, American History, Biography, Science, American, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 95
series: Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs
publisher: Penguin Books