Add this copy of Oppenheimer; the Years of Risk to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Prentice-Hall.
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Very good in good jacket. xii, 292 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Biographical Chronology. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has price clipped. DJ has some wear and soiling. James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his science fiction novels Warday and Nature's End. He has also written non-fiction on the topic of the atomic age. In 2000, Kunetka was the director of communications and constituent relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He also served as an associate vice president of the university before retirement. Derived from a Kirkus review: In his diligent account of the Manhattan Project, City of Fire Kunetka necessarily focused on Oppenheimer, presenting him in a sympathetic light. Here he traces Oppenheimer's life from his precocious boyhood through the Los Alamos years, the postwar decade of government consulting, the fateful loyalty hearings and their aftermath. Kunetka sticks to the straight-and-narrow: Oppenheimer as savant and scientist, persuader and sometimes persuadee. There are ample examples of the Oppenheimer style, the mannerisms, the ways with words, the low tolerance for stupidity. What Kunetka does best is to convey the complexity of the decision-making process. Nowhere was this more crucial than during 1949 and 1950 when pressure to develop a crash program for the superbomb was mounting. Oppenheimer's opposition was partly a matter of scientific judgment; but if the enemy were to develop superbombs the US would have no choice. This sort of equivocation, infuriating to Oppenheimer's enemies, was a factor in raising the security-clearance issue. Kunetka is informative and fair-minded.
Add this copy of Oppenheimer the Years of Risk to cart. $144.95, very good condition, Sold by RARE BOOK CELLAR rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pomona, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1982 by Prentice Hall Direct.
