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Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics,J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.

Первая полная и подробная биография "отца атомной бомбы" Дж. Роберта Оппенгеймера — великого и харизматичного ученого, который создал оружие, способное уничтожить мир. Но, осознав последствия своей работы после трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, он начал борьбу за международный контроль над ядерной энергией, а также яростно выступал против разработки водородной бомбы.
Оппенгеймера ненавидели высокопоставленные сторонники "ядерного превосходства США", за ним вел непрерывную слежку директор ФБР Эдгар Гувер, изучая каждый его шаг и каждое слово. Репутацию ученого целенаправленно уничтожали, записывая в изменники родины. Однако время все расставило на свои места…
Его непростая жизнь — ключ к пониманию недавнего прошлого и осознанию ошибок, которых можно избежать в будущем.

Первая полная и подробная биография «отца атомной бомбы» Дж. Роберта Оппенгеймера – великого и харизматичного ученого, который создал оружие, способное уничтожить мир. Но, осознав последствия своей работы после трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, он начал борьбу за международный контроль над ядерной энергией, а также яростно выступал против разработки водородной бомбы.

Оппенгеймера ненавидели высокопоставленные сторонники «ядерного превосходства США», за ним вел непрерывную слежку директор ФБР Эдгар Гувер, изучая каждый его шаг и каждое слово. Репутацию ученого целенаправленно уничтожали, записывая в изменники родины. Однако время все расставило на свои места…

Его непростая жизнь – ключ к понимаю недавнего прошлого и осознанию ошибок, которых можно избежать в будущем.

Первая полная и подробная биография "отца атомной бомбы" Дж. Роберта Оппенгеймера — великого и харизматичного ученого, который создал оружие, способное уничтожить мир. Но, осознав последствия своей работы после трагедии Хиросимы и Нагасаки, он начал борьбу за международный контроль над ядерной энергией, а также яростно выступал против разработки водородной бомбы.

Оппенгеймера ненавидели высокопоставленные сторонники "ядерного превосходства США", за ним вел непрерывную слежку директор ФБР Эдгар Гувер, изучая каждый его шаг и каждое слово. Репутацию ученого целенаправленно уничтожали, записывая в изменники родины. Однако время все расставило на свои места…

Его непростая жизнь — ключ к понимаю недавнего прошлого и осознанию ошибок, которых можно избежать в будущем.

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new evidence that has come to light concerning these often emotionally debated subjects. He also invokes his experience as a historical advisor to the controversial, aborted 1995 Enola Gay exhibit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which leads him to analyze the impact on American democracy of one of the most insidious legacies of Hiroshima: the political control of historical interpretation.

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation - one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress." "He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials - an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force's plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war. In the now almost-forgotten hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb advocate Edward Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets." American Prometheus is an evocation of America at mid-century, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events - the Depression, World War II and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history, and essential to our understanding of our recent past - and of our choices for the future.

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the atomic bomb," the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to capture the awesome fire of the sun for his country in time of war. Immediately after Hiroshima, he became the most famous scientist of his generation - one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the consequences of scientific progress." "He was the author of a radical proposal to place international controls over atomic materials - an idea that is still relevant today. He opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force's plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war. In the now almost-forgotten hysteria of the early 1950s, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup, and, in response, Atomic Energy Commission chairman Lewis Strauss, Superbomb advocate Edward Teller and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover worked behind the scenes to have a hearing board find that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets." American Prometheus is an evocation of America at mid-century, a new and compelling portrait of a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man profoundly connected to its major events - the Depression, World War II and the Cold War. It is at once biography and history, and essential to our understanding of our recent past - and of our choices for the future.