Bestsellers
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
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Great book, but read waaayyy to slow.
- De Robert en 04-24-24
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51....
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- De Cynthia en 10-08-15
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- De: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Authors Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff take a riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military.
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Connects the dots
- De Anonymous User en 09-11-24
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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A miracle that we escaped the Cold War alive....
- De A reader en 02-16-14
De: Eric Schlosser
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Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima
- De: Mark Walker
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'.
De: Mark Walker
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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.
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Great book, but read waaayyy to slow.
- De Robert en 04-24-24
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51....
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- De Cynthia en 10-08-15
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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Unit X
- How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
- De: Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Raj M. Shah, Christopher Kirchhoff
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Authors Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff take a riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon—the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X—whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley’s cutting-edge technology to America’s military.
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Connects the dots
- De Anonymous User en 09-11-24
De: Raj M. Shah, y otros
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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A miracle that we escaped the Cold War alive....
- De A reader en 02-16-14
De: Eric Schlosser
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Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima
- De: Mark Walker
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved, Mark Walker explores the narratives surrounding 'Hitler's bomb'.
De: Mark Walker
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Hiroshima
- The Last Witnesses (Embers, Book 1)
- De: M. G. Sheftall
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 17 h y 6 m
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The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience....
De: M. G. Sheftall
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Raven Rock
- The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
- De: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
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A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....
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Awesome Read!!
- De Brewer Richardson en 05-05-17
De: Garrett M. Graff
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The Origins of Victory
- How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
- De: Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr
- Narrado por: Adam Barr
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
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This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century....
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Interesting listen
- De Gerry en 11-11-23
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Countdown to Zero Day
- Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
- De: Kim Zetter
- Narrado por: Joe Ochman
- Duración: 13 h
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The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....
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Amazingly detailed, sober and above all, damning
- De Greg en 11-22-14
De: Kim Zetter
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Hegemony or Survival
- America's Quest for Global Dominance
- De: Noam Chomsky
- Narrado por: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
- Duración: 7 h y 53 m
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For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe...
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Read and open your mind
- De Rupert en 01-15-04
De: Noam Chomsky
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White Malice
- The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
- De: Susan Williams
- Narrado por: Chanté McCormick
- Duración: 21 h y 14 m
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A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....
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A very good read.
- De Amazon Customer en 11-20-22
De: Susan Williams
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Conversations with Major Dick Winters
- Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers
- De: Cole C. Kingseed
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Company from the confusion and chaos of the D-day invasion to the final capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest....
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This one grows on you
- De David en 09-28-15
De: Cole C. Kingseed
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The Bastard Brigade
- The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- De: Sam Kean
- Narrado por: Ben Sullivan
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb....
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Awesome
- De Solar red en 07-12-19
De: Sam Kean
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 14 h y 12 m
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....
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overall outstanding
- De Thomas en 06-25-09
De: Richard Rhodes
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
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The Guns of John Moses Browning
- The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
- De: Nathan Gorenstein
- Narrado por: Michael David Axtell
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict....
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Fascinating Story
- De tb en 07-02-21
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The Alchemy of Air
- A Jewish Genius, a Doomed Tycoon, and the Scientific Discovery That Fed the World but Fueled the Rise of Hitler
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 10 h y 47 m
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A sweeping history of tragic genius, cutting-edge science, and the discovery that changed billions of lives - including your own....
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Great Book Thoroughly Researched
- De Terry A. Gray en 10-21-11
De: Thomas Hager
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The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct....
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Good book, but has some issues
- De Mike From Mesa en 11-10-22
De: Max Hastings
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Thirteen Days
- A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- De: Robert F. Kennedy
- Narrado por: Kurt Elftmann
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy....
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IF YOU LOVE HISTORY"""
- De Max & Lucy en 02-24-19
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- De: Neal Bascomb
- Narrado por: Chris Sorensen
- Duración: 14 h y 7 m
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It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient....
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Needs a different narrator!!!!
- De Scott en 06-04-16
De: Neal Bascomb
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The Demon in the Freezer
- A True Story
- De: Richard Preston
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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The first major bioterror event in the United States - the anthrax attacks in October 2001 - was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons....
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Pretty interesting listening in a horrific way
- De S A en 09-19-03
De: Richard Preston
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UAPs and the Nuclear Puzzle
- Visitations, National Security, and the Need for Transparency
- De: Robert Salas, Leslie Kean - foreword, Stanton T. Friedman - foreword
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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In 1969 the US Air Force issued a statement that read‚ "No UFO reported, investigated, and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security." This statement has been proven untrue....
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SOMETHING EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW
- De Kindle Customer en 12-10-23
De: Robert Salas, y otros
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Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945
- Red Steamroller
- De: Robert A. Forczyk
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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The author of Case White offers an extensive history of German and Soviet armored warfare toward the end of World War II....
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Excellent account
- De E. Ronakov en 07-15-24
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109 East Palace
- Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
- De: Jennet Conant
- Narrado por: Anne Twomey
- Duración: 5 h y 57 m
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They were told as little as possible....
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Great Listen
- De John H. Davis III en 10-22-05
De: Jennet Conant
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Dark Sun
- The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 26 h y 30 m
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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Cuban Missile Crisis: A History From Beginning to End
- De: Hourly History
- Narrado por: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
- Duración: 1 h y 9 m
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The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot....
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Excellent Book
- De Demarcus brooks en 04-17-20
De: Hourly History
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Revolver
- Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America
- De: Jim Rasenberger
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 16 h y 49 m
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A sweeping, definitive biography of Samuel Colt - the inventor of the legendary Colt revolver (aka six-shooter), which changed the US forever, triggering the industrial revolution and the settlement of the American West....
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Sam Colt, but not the Revolver
- De Eggleston en 08-01-20
De: Jim Rasenberger
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Plutopia
- Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
- De: Kate Brown
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....
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Mourning an Eternity of Radioactive Pollution
- De Will Szal en 01-01-19
De: Kate Brown
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- De: Ray Monk
- Narrado por: Michael Goldstrom
- Duración: 35 h y 17 m
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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A comprehensive biography
- De Jean en 10-17-14
De: Ray Monk