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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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Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time

The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller-the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction.

How did science-and its practitioners-enlisted in the service of the state during the Second World War, become a slave to its patron during the Cold War? The story of these three men, builders of the bombs, is fundamentally about loyalty-to country, to science, and to each other-and about the wrenching choices that had to be made when these allegiances came into conflict.

Gregg Herken gives us the behind-the-scenes account based upon a decade of research, interviews, and newly released Freedom of Information Act and Russian documents. Brotherhood of the Bomb is a vital slice of American history told authoritatively-and grippingly-for the first time.

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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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Title Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
Author Gregg Herken
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Pages 480
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Holt Paperbacks, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication date 2003-09-01
Illustrated Yes
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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)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
Category History - Military / War
Dewey Decimal Code B

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

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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.

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