American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant ambitious complex and flawed man profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.