American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

I: "He received every new idea as perfectly beautiful"

"His separate prison"

"I am having a pretty bad time"

"I find the work hard. Thank God, & almost pleasant"

"I am Oppenheimer"

"Oppie"

"The nim nim boys"

II: "In 1936 my interests began to change"

"[Frank] clipped it out and sent it in"

"More and more surely"

"I'm going to marry a friend of yours, Steve"

"We were pulling the New Deal to the left"

"The coordinator of rapid rupture"

"The Chevalier affair"

III: "He'd become very patriotic"

"Too much secrecy"

"Oppenheimer is telling the truth..."

"Suicide, motive unknown"

"Would you like to adopt her? '' "Bohr was God, and Oppie was his prophet"

"The impact of the gadget on civilization"

"Now we're all sons-of-bitches"

IV: "Those poor little people"

"I feel I have blood on my hands"

"People could destroy New York"

"Oppie had a rash and is now immune"

"An intellectual hotel"

"He couldn't understand why he did it"

"I am sure that is why she threw things at him"

"He never let on what his opinion was"

"Dark words about Oppie"

"Scientist X"

"The beast in the jungle"

V: "It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?"

"I fear that this whole thing is a piece of idiocy"

"A manifestation of hysteria"

"A black mark on the Escutcheon of our country"

"I can still feel the warm blood on my hands"

"It was really like a never-never-land"

"It should have been done the day after trinity"

"There's only one Robert".