Ray Monk: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center

Name: Ray Monk: Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center
Author: Monk, Ray
ISBN: 9780385504072

by Monk, Ray

ISBN: 9780385504072

Published: 2012

Atomic bomb

Robert J. Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to have eternal ramifications for mankind, and made Oppenheimer the 'father of the Bomb'.