{"product_id":"the-ruin-of-j-robert-oppenheimer-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-arms-race-paperback","title":"The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePriscilla J. McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartin J. Sherwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America's most famous scientist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the effort to build the atom bomb, really be a traitor? In this riveting book, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly declassified U.S. government documents and materials from Russia, as well as in-depth interviews, to expose for the first time the conspiracy that destroyed one of America's most illustrious scientists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcMillan recreates the fraught years from 1949 to 1955 when Oppenheimer and a group of liberal scientists tried to head off the cabal of hard-line air force officials, anti-Communist politicians, and rival scientists, including physicist Edward Teller, who were trying to seize control of U.S. policy and build ever more deadly nuclear weapons. Retelling the story of Oppenheimer's trial, which took place in utmost secrecy, she describes how the government made up its own rules and violated many protections of the rule of law. She also argues that the effort to discredit Oppenheimer, occurring at the height of the McCarthy era and sanctioned by a misinformed President Eisenhower, was a watershed in the Cold War, poisoning American politics for decades and creating dangers that haunt us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA chilling tale of McCarthy-era machinations, this groundbreaking page-turner rewrites the history of the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePriscilla J. McMillan\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. The author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eMarina and Lee: The Tormented Love and Fatal Obsession Behind Lee Harvey Oswald's Assassination of John F. Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e, her articles have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eScientific American\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47552496173309,"sku":"9781421425672","price":63.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/MTA0czduRzg0U2M4KzdDbmlwOEZjQT09.webp?v=1779256344","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-ruin-of-j-robert-oppenheimer-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-arms-race-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}