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Robert Oppenheimer was being among the most amazing and divisive of men. As mind of the Los Alamos Lab, he oversaw the successful effort to defeat the Nazis in the race to build up the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and this made Oppenheimer the "Father of the Atomic Bomb." But with his actions leading up to that great achievements, he also place himself over a dangerous collision course with Senator Joseph McCarthy and his witch-hunters. In Robert Oppenheimer: A Life In the Middle, Ray Monk, writer of peerless biographies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, goes deeper than any prior biographer in the search to solve the enigma of Oppenheimer's motivations and his intricate personality. The son of German-Jewish immigrants, Oppenheimer was a guy of phenomenal intellectual attributes, influenced by an ambition to get over his position as an outsider and permeate the heart and soul of political and communal life. As a young scientist, his skill and drive allowed him to type in a community peopled by the great titles of twentieth-century physics - men such as Niels Bohr, Maximum Given birth to, Paul Dirac, and Albert Einstein - also to play a role in the laboratories and classrooms where in fact the world had been changed forever, where in fact the secrets of the world, whether within atomic nuclei or collapsing celebrities, exposed themselves. But Oppenheimer's avenue gone beyond one of assimilation, technological success, and world fame. The implications of the discoveries at Los Alamos weighed seriously upon this delicate and complicated man. Within the 1930s, in a local climate already dense with paranoia and espionage, he made dubious relationships, and in the wake of the Allied success, his makes an attempt to withstand the escalation of the Cold War arms race led many to question his loyalties. Through compassionate research and with towering scholarship, Ray Monk’s Robert Oppenheimer tells an unforgettable report of discovery, secrecy, impossible selections, and unimaginable destruction.
