Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780142001158 | 28 Mar 2006 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Introduction Part One: 1945-1949
Chapter One: David Lilienthal's Vacation
Chapter Two: The Maneuvering Begins
Chapter Three: The Halloween Meeting
Chapter Four: The Secret Debate
Chapter Five: Lost Opportunities Part Two: 1950
Chapter Six: Fuchs's Betrayal
Chapter Seven: Fission versus Fusion
Chapter Eight: Teller
Chapter Nine: Ulam Part Three: 1951-1952
Chapter Ten: Teller's Choice
Chapter Eleven: The Second Lab
Chapter Twelve: A New Era Part Four: 1952-1954
Chapter Thirteen: Sailing Close to the Wind
Chapter Fourteen: Strauss Returns
Chapter Fifteen: Two Wild Horses
Chapter Sixteen: The Blank Wall
Chapter Seventeen: Hoover
Chapter Eighteen: The Hearing Begins
Chapter Nineteen: Smyth
Chapter Twenty: Borden
Chapter Twenty-One: Caesar's Wife
Chapter Twenty-Two: Do We Really Need Scientists?
Chapter Twenty-Three: Oppenheimer
Chapter Twenty-Four: We Made It—and We Gave It Away
Postlude
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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