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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2016.
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| Series: | New American canon.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Desert saint or destroyer of worlds: Oppenheimer biographies
- Under the sun: Oppenheimer in history
- History imagined: Oppenheimer in fiction
- The ghost and the machine: Oppenheimer in film and television
- "The bony truth": Oppenheimer in museums
- In his own worlds: Oppenheimer's writing.