Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller by Gregg Herken

Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller

Gregg Herken

448 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative tense medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

How did science-and its practitioners-enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War? The story of these three men, builders of the bombs, is fundamentally about loyalty-to countr...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...