American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

ROBERT OPPENHEIMER’S life, his career, his reputation, even his sense of self-worth suddenly spun out of control four days before Christmas in 1953. “I can’t believe what is happening to me,” he exclaimed, staring through the window of the car speeding him to his lawyer’s Georgetown home in Washington, D.C. There, within a few hours, he had to confront a fateful decision. Should he resign from his government advisory positions? Or should he fight the charges contained in the letter that Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), had handed to him out of the blue earlier that afternoon? The letter informed him that a new review of his background and policy recommendations had resulted in his being declared a security risk, and went on to delineate thirty-four charges ranging from the ridiculous “it was reported that in 1940 you were listed as a sponsor of the Friends of the Chinese People” to the political “in the autumn of 1949, and subsequently, you strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb.”

جهت استعلام قيمت و سفارش چاپ اين محصول لطفا با انتشارات گنج حضور تماس حاصل فرماييد.