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02021aam a2200349 4500 001 E3A5E7789A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 070222s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1470824418 020 $a 9781470824419 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Bird, Kai, $e author. 245 1 $a American Prometheus $h [Audiobook] : $b the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 246 3 $a Triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Ashland, Or. : $b Blackstone Audiobooks, $c 2007. 300 $a 21 audio discs (26 hr., 30 min.) ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 $a Narrated by Jeff Cummings. 520 $a 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. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s. They declared that Oppenheimer could not be trusted with America's nuclear secrets. In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. 541 $d 20231023. 600 1 $a Oppenheimer, J. Robert, $d 1904-1967. 650 $a Physicists $z United States $v Biography. 650 $a Atomic bomb $z United States $x History. 655 7 $a collective biographies. $2 aat 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast 700 $a Sherwin, Martin J., $e author. 700 $a Cummings, Jeffrey, $e narrator. 941 $a 1 952 $l VTPD454 $d 20231214063222.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E3A5E7789A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search