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Autore |
Porter Jeffrey Lyn <1951-> |
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Titolo |
Oppenheimer is watching me : a memoir / / Jeff Porter |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Collana |
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Sightline books : the Iowa series in literary nonfiction |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cold War - Social aspects - United States |
Atomic bomb - Social aspects - United States |
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970 |
United States Social conditions 1945- |
United States History 1953-1961 Biography |
United States History 1961-1969 Biography |
Buffalo (N.Y.) Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Oppenheimer is watching me -- Castro's beard -- Distress signals -- Going ballistic -- Trace elements -- On the beach -- Postscript. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America's atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me, takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries, Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a generation. |
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