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Research material gathered by Sherman, Kai Bird, Alice Kimball Smith, and others regarding J. Robert Oppenheimer. Used by Bird and Sherman in writing American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005). Includes correspondence, interviews, oral histories, government records, topical files, printed matter, photographs, and other papers. Documents Oppenheimer's work as director of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, his political views, and investigations of his Communist associations. Subjects include the atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, international control of atomic energy and weaponry, national security, and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Persons represented include Hans A. Bethe, Haakon Chevalier, Lee A. DuBridge, Francis Fergusson, Leslie R. Groves, Paul Horgan, George F. Kennan, David Eli Lilienthal, Frank Oppenheimer, Katherine P. Oppenheimer, Lewis L. Strauss, Jean Tatlock, and Edward Teller.
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Nuclear arms control, Politics and government, Moral and ethical aspects, Communism, National security, International cooperation, Science, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Nuclear energy, Nuclear physics, Hydrogen bomb, Nuclear weapons, Internal security, Atomic bomb, U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPeople
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), Haakon Chevalier (1902-1985), Frank Oppenheimer (1912-1985), Hans A. Bethe (1906-2005), George F. Kennan (1904-2005), Edward Teller (1908-2003), Alice Kimball Smith, Jean Tatlock, Francis Fergusson, Lee A. DuBridge (1901-), Lewis L. Strauss, Kai Bird, Paul Horgan (1903-1995), Katherine P. Oppenheimer (1910?-1972), David Eli Lilienthal (1899-1981), Leslie R. Groves (1896-1970), Lee A. DuBridge (1901-1994)Places
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Open to research.
Gift, Martin J. Sherwin, 2007.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
Author, biographer, and educator.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.
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