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Robert Oppenheimer: The Sphinx Without a Secret

Robert Oppenheimer: The Sphinx Without a Secret

Rieff, David

Hardcover

Series: Jewish Lives

Biographies General

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 20, 2026

ISBN10: 0300180462
ISBN13: 9780300180466
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Oct 20 2026
Pages: 312
Language: English

An original perspective on the father of the atomic bomb, shedding new light on Oppenheimer's personality and psychology

Both to his contemporaries and to posterity J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) has gone down in history as the father of the atomic bomb. He was a brilliant theoretical physicist, who, as a teacher, was the central figure in the development of theoretical physics in the United States. During World War II Oppenheimer served as the scientific director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were designed and tested. Oppenheimer's meteoric rise continued after the war, when he became principal scientific advisor to the US Atomic Energy Commission, which in effect made him the US government's chief scientist. But his fall was equally meteoric, when he became the best known victim of the Red Scare of the early Cold War period and was stripped of his security clearances and excluded from any policymaking role.

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