The meanings of J. Robert Oppenheimer /

He called the first atomic bomb "technically sweet," yet as he watched its brilliant light explode over the New Mexico desert in 1945 in advance of the black horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he also thought of the line from the Hindu epicThe Bhagavad Gita: "I am become Death, the de...

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Main Author: Banco, Lindsey Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2016.
Series:New American canon.
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