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TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk Published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. 5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224 USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601 UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. OPPENHEIMER AND THE MANHATTAN PROJECT Insights into J Robert Oppenheimer, “Father of the Atomic Bomb” Copyright © 2006 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the Publisher. For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy is not required from the publisher. ISBN 981-256-418-7 ISBN 981-256-599-X (pbk) Typeset by Stallion Press Email: [email protected] Printed in Singapore. November15,2005 9:50 B318:OppenheimerandtheManhattanProject(Ed:YunChengMok) fm CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 DEFYINGTHEODDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CynthiaC.Kelly PresidentoftheAtomicHeritageFoundation CHAPTER1:INTRODUCINGOPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . 9 OPPENHEIMERRECONSIDERED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 TheHonorableJeffBingaman UnitedStatesSenatorfromNewMexico ROBERTOPPENHEIMER:KINGOFTHEHILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 RichardRhodes AuthorofTheMakingoftheAtomicBombandDarkSun ANOVELIDEAOFOPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 JosephKanon AuthorofLosAlamosandTheProdigalSpy CHAPTER2:LIFEATLOSALAMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 PRESERVATIONONTHEPAJARITOPLATEAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 StuartAshman Director,OfficeofCulturalAffairs,StateofNewMexico J.ROBERTOPPENHEIMERANDTHESTATEOFNEWMEXICO: ARECIPROCALRELATIONSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 FerencSzasz Professor,DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofNewMexico v November15,2005 9:50 B318:OppenheimerandtheManhattanProject(Ed:YunChengMok) fm vi Contents ROBERTOPPENHEIMER:AWINDOWONHISLIFEATLOSALAMOS . . 66 KaiBird FellowattheWoodrowWilsonInternationalCenter forScholars MartinSherwin ProfessorofHistoryatTuftsUniversity CHAPTER3:OPPENHEIMER’SPLACEINHISTORY . . . . . 77 STANDINGONTHESHOULDERSOFGIANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 EveretBeckner DeputyAdministratorforDefensePrograms,NationalNuclear SecurityAdministration,DepartmentofEnergy THECAUTIONARYTALEOFROBERTOPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . 86 GreggHerken Professor,SchoolofSocialSciences,HumanitiesandArts, UniversityofCalifornia,Merced THEEARLYYEARSOFROBERTOPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 JonHunner AssociateProfessor,DirectorofPublicHistoryProgramat NewMexicoStateUniversity GENERALGROVES’INDISPENSABLESCIENTIST . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 RobertS.Norris NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil CHAPTER4:PERSONALREFLECTIONSONOPPENHEIMER 117 OPPENHEIMERASATEACHEROFPHYSICSANDPH.D.ADVISOR . . . . 119 EdwardGerjuoy ProfessorEmeritusofPhysics,UniversityofPittsburgh REMEMBERINGOPJE:TEACHER,SCIENTISTANDFRIEND . . . . . . . 141 DavidPines InstituteforComplexAdaptiveMatter,Universityof CaliforniaOfficeofthePresident,Oakland,California J.ROBERTOPPENHEIMER:CONSUMMATEPHYSICIST . . . . . . . . . 148 MauriceM.Shapiro Professor,UniversityofMaryland November15,2005 9:50 B318:OppenheimerandtheManhattanProject(Ed:YunChengMok) fm Contents vii AFEWWORDSFROMANOPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 AndrewR.Oppenheimer APPENDICES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 APPENDIXI—AGENDAFOROPPENHEIMERANDTHE MANHATTANPROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 APPENDIXII—CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk November15,2005 9:50 B318:OppenheimerandtheManhattanProject(Ed:YunChengMok) introduction Introduction 1
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