Focuses primarily on the critical years of Oppenheimer's career, from 1939 to 1954, discussing his scientific achievements, the development of the atomic bomb, and the significant issues that shaped his life

Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk

Kunetka, James

Biographies & Memoirs

Prentice Hall Direct

Fine hardcover w/nf dj, Copyright 1986 by Wilson & Neff and James Kunetka, BCE 6472. 404 pages by Whitley Strieber & James Kunetka, authors of WARDAY. The authors of the best seller Warday ( LJ 4/1/84) depict in powerful detail a 21st-century Earth with devastated environment and rampant overpopulation. A rich and comfortable elite coexists with malnourished, pitiful billions, ``the victim generation.'' The rich enjoy youth preservation treatments and other biomedical wonders while the rest just endure the toxicity and pollution. Hero John Sinclair and a few rich companies fight to thwart the leader of a burgeoning Depopulation Movement that would have each third person poisoned to ``solve'' the population crisis. Readers will follow with grim fascination these struggles to survive in a dying world. Sobering message eclipses story, and the book should strike home with a variety of informed citizens. Strongly recommended. William A. Donovan, Chicago P.L.

Nature's End

Science Fiction & Fantasy

STRIEBER, WHITLEY

Science Fiction

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A handful of Americans fight a terrifying worldwide movement to depopulate an earth that is on the brink of environmental collapse

Literature & Fiction

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

A handful of Americans fight a terrifying worldwide movement to depopulate the earth that is on the brink of environmental collapse

Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century

In the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. Leslie Richard Groves was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors.

The General and the Genius Lib/E: Groves and Oppenheimer-The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb

Historical

Blackstone Publishing

Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer—the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations—Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men—the general and the genius.

The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

Leaders & Notable People

Regnery History

Two ambitious men. One historic mission. With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable but produc&nbsp;tive partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, the duty-driven son of a Presbyterian chaplain, was promoted to brigadier general in 1942 and made overlord of the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. Groves turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, a man who was his opposite in nearly every respect--J. Robert Oppenheimer, the martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team of physicists and engineers sequestered in a secret mountaintop lab. Overcoming immense scientific and technological challenges, they built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human&nbsp;race to unimaginable new terrors. While the greatest battles of history raged around the globe, the most momentous work of the Second World War proceeded silently in a setting of almost monastic seclusion. And at the heart of that story are two extraordinary men--the general and the genius.

General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb (World War II Collection)

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Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk

Nature's End

Nature's End

Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century

The General and the Genius Lib/E: Groves and Oppenheimer-The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb

The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb

General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer - The Unlikely Partnership that Built the Atom Bomb (World War II Collection)