Ben Pfeifer’s Reviews > American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer > Status Update

It saddens me how much this reminds me of what is happening today. In politics. We are repeating McCarthyism. I feel like we will be reading a book like this in 70 years about the Trump administration.

By the end of the 1950s. We went from 300 nuclear warheads to over 18,000. Jesus Christ.

Jeez. They hear that two German scientists have split a uranium atom. The next day they start working on the bomb.

The history and formation of the American humanist movement is an unexpected bonus in this book. The stuff on Oppenheimer's dad is very interesting