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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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 ana…
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