description: J. Robert Oppenheimer is 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War.
language: English
title: American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Part 2
titlecomplete: American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer Part 2
characters: Harry S. Truman, Francis Fergusson, Isidor Isaac Rabi, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Oppenheimer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, David E. Lilienthal, Bernard Baruch, Ernest Lawrence, James B. Conant, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, Leslie Groves, Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Haakon Chevalier, Lewis Strauss, Vannevar Bush
genres: Physics, History, American History, Biography Memoir, War, Biography, Science, Audiobook, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 30441
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Biography or Autobiography, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Biography, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Duff Cooper Prize
publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.