Brotherhood of the Bomb
Subtitle: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2002-09-09
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 978-0-80-506588-6
Subjects: History; Teller, Edward,; Military - Weapons; Biography / Autobiography; U.S. History - 20th Century (General); United States - 20th Century; Atomic And Nuclear Physics; Oppenheimer, J. Robert,; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando,; History: American; United States; Historical - General; Scientists - Inventors; History / Modern / 20th Century; 20th century; Nuclear Physics; Physicists; 1901-1958; 1904-1967; Atomic bomb; Biography
First sentence: EARLY IN 1939, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the Berkeley physicist and inventor of the cyclotron, was planning a machine to change the world.