American Prometheus
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What’s it about?
A monumental biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, tracing his rise as a brilliant physicist, his leadership of the Manhattan Project, and his tragic downfall during the Cold War security hearings.
You’ll learn
- How Oppenheimer built the atomic bomb
- The moral cost of scientific ambition
- The Cold War's destruction of a hero
- The limits of reason in politics