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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48941348 Title: Brotherhood of the bomb : the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller Author: Gregg Herken Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0805065881 9780805065886 OCLC:48941348

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Brotherhood of the bomb : the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

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Brotherhood of the bomb : the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller

Author:	Gregg Herken
Publisher:	New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2002.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	In this vital slice of American history, told authoritatively--and grippingly--for the first time, Herken relates the tangled lives and localities of the men who founded the nuclear age: Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.
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Named Person:	J Robert Oppenheimer; Ernest Orlando Lawrence; Edward Teller
Material Type:	Biography
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Gregg Herken Find more information about:
ISBN:	0805065881 9780805065886
OCLC Number:	48941348
Description:	xiv, 448 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Temples of the future: Cyclotron republic -- Practical philosopher's stone -- Useful adviser -- Adventurous time -- Inside the wire: Enormoz -- Question of divided loyalties -- Break, blow, burn -- Stone's throw from despair -- Scientists in gray flannel suits: World in which war will not occur -- Character, association, and loyalty -- Rather puzzled horror -- Desperate urgency here -- Sorcerer's apprentice: Nuclear plenty -- Bad business now threatening -- Descent into the maelstrom -- Not much more than a kangaroo court -- All the evil of the times: Good deed a man has done before -- Like going to a new country -- Cross of atoms.
Responsibility:	Gregg Herken.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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In this vital slice of American history, told authoritatively--and grippingly--for the first time, Herken relates the tangled lives and localities of the men who founded the nuclear age: Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller.

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