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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the atomic West

Jon Hunner
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