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Brotherhood of the Bomb
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Brotherhood of the Bomb Paperback - 2000

by Herken, Gregg

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The incredible tale of the human conflict between three men--Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller--the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction, is recounted, with behind-the-scenes information based on a decade of research.

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  • Title Brotherhood of the Bomb
  • Author Herken, Gregg
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-09-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780805065893
  • ISBN 9780805065893 / 080506589X
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

First line

EARLY IN 1939, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, the Berkeley physicist and inventor of the cyclotron, was planning a machine to change the world.

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Citations

  • New York Review of Books, 12/04/2003, Page 37

About the author

Gregg Herken is a curator and historian at the Smithsonian Institution and has taught at Oberlin, Caltech, and Yale. He is the author of The Winning Weapon, Counsels of War, and Cardinal Choices and received a MacArthur grant for Brotherhood of the Bomb. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.