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The Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, by Gregg Herken. This is a superb account of one of the most dramatic eras in both scientific and military history. Robert Oppenheimer headed the Los Alamos lab and strove mightily for the development of the A-Bomb. Yet after World War II he fought with Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller over the development of even a greater weapon, the H-Bomb. Mr. Herken does a magnificent and impartial job narrating the events, lives and intimate moments of these men. Much of the new evidence presented here resulted from access to illegal FBI wire taps as well as once secret KGB files. Exciting and informative, this book will go down as the definitive work on the development of nuclear weapons in America.
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