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  1. I haven't seen the #Oppenheimer movie, but I just finished the book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning #AmericanPrometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin. Compelling, brilliantly researched, vast in scope from quantum physics' golden era through WWII and the Cold War...just remarkable.

  2. I haven't seen the #Oppenheimer movie, but I just finished the book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning #AmericanPrometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin. Compelling, brilliantly researched, vast in scope from quantum physics' golden era through WWII and the Cold War...just remarkable.

  3. "It was no accident that the young boy who would become known as the father of the atomic era was reared in a culture that valued independent inquiry, empirical exploration and the free-thinking mind—in short, the values of science." —Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

    penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/13

    #Longreads #EditorsPicks #BookExcerpt #Biography #AmericanPrometheus #RobertJOppenheimer

  4. "It was no accident that the young boy who would become known as the father of the atomic era was reared in a culture that valued independent inquiry, empirical exploration and the free-thinking mind—in short, the values of science." —Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

    penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/13

    #Longreads #EditorsPicks #BookExcerpt #Biography #AmericanPrometheus #RobertJOppenheimer

  5. “We did live in a lucky time, didn’t we, to have even our critics so full of love and light?”

    Sir James Chadwick writing to Robert Oppenheimer Jan 1967 a month before Oppenheimer’s death from cancer.

    American Prometheus
    #AmericanPrometheus #bookstodon #oppenheimer

  6. “We did live in a lucky time, didn’t we, to have even our critics so full of love and light?”

    Sir James Chadwick writing to Robert Oppenheimer Jan 1967 a month before Oppenheimer’s death from cancer.

    American Prometheus
    #AmericanPrometheus #bookstodon #oppenheimer

  7. “After receiving his first briefing on nuclear weapons in September 1953, [Nikita] Khrushchev later recalled, “I couldn’t sleep for several days. Then I became convinced that we could never possibly use these weapons.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #americanPrometheus #Openheimer

  8. “After receiving his first briefing on nuclear weapons in September 1953, [Nikita] Khrushchev later recalled, “I couldn’t sleep for several days. Then I became convinced that we could never possibly use these weapons.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #americanPrometheus #Openheimer

  9. Men as different as McCloy, Rabi and Oppenheimer all thought Truman’s instincts, particularly in the field of atomic diplomacy, were neither measured nor sound—and sadly, certainly were not up to the challenge the country and the world now faced.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #presidentTruman

  10. Men as different as McCloy, Rabi and Oppenheimer all thought Truman’s instincts, particularly in the field of atomic diplomacy, were neither measured nor sound—and sadly, certainly were not up to the challenge the country and the world now faced.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #presidentTruman

  11. “The idea was dropped, but only because there seemed no efficient way to poison large numbers of the enemy population.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #wwii #americanHistory

  12. “The idea was dropped, but only because there seemed no efficient way to poison large numbers of the enemy population.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #wwii #americanHistory

  13. American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

    It’s still there! That’s great.. 615 Sacramento --or 628 now
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #bookstodon

  14. American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin

    It’s still there! That’s great.. 615 Sacramento --or 628 now
    #AmericanPrometheus #RobertOppenheimer #bookstodon

  15. Isidor Rabi on his friendship with Robert Oppenheimer: “We felt a certain kinship,” Rabi said. It was that rare brand of friendship, forged in youth, that survives long separations. “You start off,” Rabi recalled, “just where you left off.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #americanPrometheus #bookstodon #RobertOppenheimer

  16. Isidor Rabi on his friendship with Robert Oppenheimer: “We felt a certain kinship,” Rabi said. It was that rare brand of friendship, forged in youth, that survives long separations. “You start off,” Rabi recalled, “just where you left off.”

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #americanPrometheus #bookstodon #RobertOppenheimer

  17. “The laboring classes, [..] deserved “just remuneration, constant employment, and social dignity.” The labor movement [..] “is an ethical movement, and I am with it, heart and soul.”
    -Felix Adler, 1890s

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #bookstodon

  18. “The laboring classes, [..] deserved “just remuneration, constant employment, and social dignity.” The labor movement [..] “is an ethical movement, and I am with it, heart and soul.”
    -Felix Adler, 1890s

    American Prometheus
    Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin
    #AmericanPrometheus #bookstodon