The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer
and the birth of the modern arms race
$76.71
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2018
Summary
The true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America’s most famous scientist.
On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the effort to build the atom bomb, really be a traitor? In this riveting book, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly declassified U.S. government documents a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421425672 |
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| ISBN-10: | 142142567X |
| Series: | Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs |
| Author: | Priscilla J. McMillan, Martin J. Sherwin |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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Pricilla J. McMillan understands that reality and, without patronizing the reader, writes an engrossing narrative that anyone with any level of background—or lack thereof—on this most important of subjects can follow—New York Journal of Books
About The Author
Priscilla J. McMillan
Priscilla J. McMillan is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. The author of the bestselling Marina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald’s Assassination of John F. Kennedy, her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and Scientific American, among other places.
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