Leading Los Alamos

摘要

Does the world really need yet another book about J. Robert Oppenheimer? The already high pile of Oppenheimer biographies has been elevated in the past three years by David Cassidy's book J. Robert Oppenheimer (Pi Press, 2004) and Priscilla McMillans The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Viking, 2005). There have also been collaborative studies by Abraham Pais and Robert P. Crease (J. Robert Oppenheimer; Oxford University Press, 2006) and by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (American Prometheus; Alfred A. Knopf, 2005). But amazingly, Charles Thorpe's Oppenheimer still manages to provide a fascinating new perspective.