J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the atomic West
This biography of Oppenheime explores how the West influenced J. Robert Oppenheimer as a scientist and person and how he influenced it. The author describes how Oppenheimer's life changed the course of history, as he helped locate the atomic weapons research lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico and transformed the area as the atomic West
Print Book, English, ©2009
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla., ©2009
Oklahoma western biographies, v. 24
Biography
xvi, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
9780806163086, 9780806140469, 0806163089, 0806140461
269455821
Introduction : Chasing Oppenheimer
A strange childhood
Physics goes west
Chasing the atom
The grim work of the lab
Promise and peril
Targeting Oppenheimer
The fallout