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American Prometheus, [the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer], Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

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American Prometheus, [the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer], Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
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Main title
American Prometheus
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Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Sub title
[the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer]
Summary
J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the twentieth century, was 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. This magisterial work won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography
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