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Nature 447, 379-380 (24 May 2007) | doi:10.1038/447379a; Published online 23 May 2007

Leading Los Alamos

Catherine Westfall1

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To develop the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer changed Los Alamos — and it changed him.

BOOK REVIEWEDOppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect

by Charles Thorpe


University of Chicago Press: 2007. 413 pp. $37.50