Book ID: CBB000641976

The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Arms Race (2005)

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McMillan, Priscilla J. (Author)


Viking


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: viii + 373 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Essay Review Pasachoff, Naomi (2006) The Many Facets of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 251-263). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wellerstein, Alex
Cassidy, David C.
Wang, Shiping
Strasser, Bruno J.
Sopka, Katherine Russell
Sopka, Elisabeth M.
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
Physics
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
England
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
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