Oppenheimer, the Years of Risk

Résumé du livre

Focuses primarily on the critical and most public years of Oppenheimer's career, 1942-1954. Kunetka illuminates Oppenheimer's role as one of the most influential consultants to the United States Government on matters of atomic energy, including his chairmanship of the powerful General Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission and his directorship of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was successfully created.