American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

'Reads like a thriller gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times

Physicist and polymath as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanicsJ. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was themost famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography Kai Bird andMartin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant ambitious complex and flawed man profoundlyinvolved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.