Robert Oppenheimer: The Man and His Theories (Profiles in Science) (Fawcett Premier R285)

When Robert Oppenheimer was appointed scientific director of the Manhattan Project, World War II atomic bomb program, history thrust a sensitive and deeply civilized man into a dilemma which has cruelly shaped his life ever since. It is for this reason that the biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer is more than just a life story and ideas of a great and original thinker. It is also a challenging study of moral problems of the scientist's responsibility to his government and his fellow man.