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"If science is the story of the twentieth century, no drama is more compelling than that of "the Bomb" and its creators. But the tale of human conflict that connects the three scientists most responsible for the nuclear age - Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller - was until now known only in broad outline.".
"Ten years in the research and writing, Gregg Herken's account is based on private papers, interviews with Manhattan Project survivors, and recently released documents and coded intercepts obtained from FBI and KGB archives and other sources around the world. One of Brotherhood of the Bomb's surprises is the complex game of spy versus counterspy that surrounded the bomb's building and later dominated the Cold War.
Yet, armies of U.S. security agents were unable to prevent the bomb's secrets from being passed to the Russians (sometimes by their American helpers). At the book's center is the question of loyalty - to science, to country, to family - and the wrenching choices that had to be made when such allegiances came into conflict."--BOOK JACKET.
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Atomic bomb, Biography, History, Nuclear physics, Physicists, Oppenheimer, j. robert, 1904-1967, Lawrence, ernest orlando, 1901-1958, Teller, edward, 1908-2003, Physicists, biography, Nuclear physics, history, New York Times reviewedPeople
Edward Teller (1908-), Ernest Orlando Lawrence (1901-1958), J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)Places
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Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
September 1, 2003, Holt Paperbacks
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Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
2003, Henry Holt
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Brotherhood of the bomb: the tangled lives and divided loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
2002, Henry Holt & Co., Henry Holt and Co.
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Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller
2002-09-09, Henry Holt and Co.
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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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