| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-428) and index. |
| Contents |
Temples of the future: Cyclotron republic -- Practical philosopher's stone -- Useful adviser -- Adventurous time -- Inside the wire: Enormoz -- Question of divided loyalties -- Break, blow, burn -- Stone's throw from despair -- Scientists in gray flannel suits: World in which war will not occur -- Character, association, and loyalty -- Rather puzzled horror -- Desperate urgency here -- Sorcerer's apprentice: Nuclear plenty -- Bad business now threatening -- Descent into the maelstrom -- Not much more than a kangaroo court -- All the evil of the times: Good deed a man has done before -- Like going to a new country -- Cross of atoms. |
| Summary |
In this vital slice of American history, told authoritatively--and grippingly--for the first time, Herken relates the tangled lives and localities of the men who founded the nuclear age: Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. |
| Subject |
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
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Lawrence, Ernest Orlando, 1901-1958.
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Teller, Edward, 1908-2003.
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Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
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Atomic bomb -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nuclear physics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0805065881 hb |
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