RAY MONK is professor of philosophy at the University of Southhampton and the author of two previous biographies, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, for which he was awarded the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for best work of nonfiction in English, and a two-volume biography of Bertrand Russell. He lives in England.
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifi... SEE MORE