The ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer : and the birth of the modern arms race
(2005)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
530/MCMILLAN,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018
DESCRIPTION
xvi, 373 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781421425672, 9781421425672 (pbk), 142142567X (pbk)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: 2005
Draws from previously classified documents, unpublished manuscripts, private correspondence, and other sources to chronicle the events that surrounded the revocation of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance in 1954, discussing the roles of physicist Edward Teller, Republican businessman Lewis Strauss, congressional assistant William Borden, and President Eisenhower