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Oppenheimer is watching me : a memoir / Jeff Porter.
Van Pelt Library E169.Z8 P5924 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951-
- Series:
- Sightline books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951-.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- History.
- Families.
- Atomic bomb--Social aspects.
- Atomic bomb.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Social aspects.
- Atomic bomb--Social aspects--United States.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967--Influence.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951---Childhood and youth.
- Porter, Jeffrey Lyn.
- Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951---Family.
- United States--History--1953-1961--Biography.
- United States--History--1961-1969--Biography.
- Buffalo (N.Y.)--Biography.
- Buffalo (N.Y.).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 132 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America's atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, "Oppenheimer Is Watching Me," takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries, Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a generation.
- Contents:
- Oppenheimer is watching me
- Castro's beard
- Distress signals
- Going ballistic
- Trace elements
- On the beach
- Postscript.
- ISBN:
- 9781587296161
- 1587296160
- OCLC:
- 85822487
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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