Prometeo americano

Prometeo americano

el triunfo y la tragedia de J. Robert Oppenheimer

Premio Pulitzer 2006

Bird, Kai
Sherwin, Martin J.

On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, the first atomic bomb was secretly detonated. Shocked by the destructive power of his creation, J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, would commit himself from then on to fight against the development of the hydrogen bomb and against nuclear war. Suspected of being a communist for the United States of the McCarthy era, he was persecuted by the FBI, smeared as a spy for the Soviet Union and forced to resign from any public function. His private life was similarly drawn into the grotesque; His house was raided with hidden microphones, and his phone was tapped. It would not be until 1963 that President Kennedy would rehabilitate him and, with this, his figure would obtain another face for the citizens of the entire world.

Author
Bird, Kai
Sherwin, Martin J.
Subject
History > Biographies
EAN
9788418967986
ISBN
978-84-18967-98-6
Edition
1
Publisher
Debate
Pages
864 
High
23.5 cm
Weight
16.1 cm
Release date
26-01-2023
Language
Spanish 
Series
Biografías y Memorias 
Hardcover edition
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Sherwin, Martin J. (aut.)

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