J. Robert Oppenheimer
Books
- Trinity: The Manhattan Project and the Birth of the Atomic Age The Manhattan Project and the Birth of the Atomic Age · 李思特Think
Trinity offers a comprehensive history of the Manhattan Project, tracing its evolution from early scientific advocacy to unprecedented industrial engineering.
- The Institutional Architecture of Unprecedented Scale…orld’s most brilliant physicists—someone who could bridge the chasm between military discipline and intellectual creativity. His choice was J. Robert Oppenheimer. On paper, Oppenheimer was an unlikely candidate to lead a weapons laboratory. He had no Nobel Prize, no significant administrative experie…
- The Unlikely Architect and the Secret City…ablished only weeks before, and its newly appointed commander was already buried in personnel files. This particular file, bearing the name J. Robert Oppenheimer, was thicker than most, and not because of any lengthy curriculum vitae. Attached to its standard forms was a sheaf of surveillance reports…
- Oppenheimer's Fleeting Apex…ly elevated the architects of the Manhattan Project to the apex of American political influence. In the weeks after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, J. Robert Oppenheimer moved through Washington as a man transformed. No longer merely the director of a remote laboratory in New Mexico, he had become the public…