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Author Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951-

Title Oppenheimer is watching me : a memoir / Jeff Porter
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 132 pages)
Series Sightline books
Sightline books.
Contents Oppenheimer is watching me -- Castro's beard -- Distress signals -- Going ballistic -- Trace elements -- On the beach -- Postscript
Summary When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America's atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me, takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries, Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a generation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 -- Influence
Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- -- Childhood and youth
Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- -- Family
SUBJECT Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 fast
Porter, Jeffrey Lyn, 1951- fast
Subject Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Childhood and youth of a person
Atomic bomb -- Social aspects
Families
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Manners and customs
Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140542
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140518
United States -- History -- 1953-1961 -- Biography
United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Biography
Buffalo (N.Y.) -- Biography
Subject New York (State) -- Buffalo
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781587297502
1587297507