Title Oppenheimer is watching me : a memoir / Jeff Porter.

Publication Info.	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages).
Series	Sightline books
	Sightline books.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Oppenheimer is watching me -- Castro's beard -- Distress signals -- Going ballistic -- Trace elements -- On the beach -- Postscript.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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.
Subject	Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 -- Influence.
	Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- -- Childhood and youth.
	Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- -- Family.
	Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 -- Influence -- Childhood and youth -- Family.
	Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- -- Influence -- Childhood and youth -- Family.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
	Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States.
	United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Biography.
	United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Biography.
	Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Biography.
	HISTORY.
Other Form:	Print version: Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- Oppenheimer is watching me. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007 9781587296161 1587296160 (DLC) 2007007356 (OCoLC)85822487
ISBN	9781587297502 (electronic bk.)
	1587297507 (electronic bk.)

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