American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now a Major Hollywood Film Directed by Christopher Nolan

Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times

Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.

In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin reveal a brilliant, ambitious, complex and flawed man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.