Oppenheimer's Choice Geraint Thomas

Oppenheimer's Choice Geraint ThomasStudies J. Robert Oppenheimer's choice to accept leadership of the Manhattan Project. In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which produced the first atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer's choice to take that job and our judgment of his acceptance, leading to the larger question of the meaning of moral judgment itself. Through an analysis of

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