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Jana
Feb 05, 2009 rated it really liked it
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Update 15 years later
A movie is coming ! And a Christopher Nolan one at that. Starting CILLIAN MURPHY! I am 100% chuffed about all of this. I still think about this book and mention some anecdote or other from it it regularly.


I learned so much from this book . I knew nada about Robert J. Oppenheimer. Now I deeply respect the man, faults and all. McCarthyism/Truman age was horrific. We need to learn from history.

I saw the Metropolitan opera production of Doctor Atomic while I was reading this bo
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Clay
Oct 24, 2009 rated it liked it
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Not much to say other than it is a thorough biography.
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David S. T.
Nov 15, 2017 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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