Two Lives in Contrast: Blackett, Oppenheimer and the Nuclear Age [Book Review]

Isis 97 (1):144-147 (2006)
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Mary Jo Nye. Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century. x + 255 pp., illus., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 2004. $39.95 .; David C. Cassidy. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American Century. xviii + 462 pp., table, apps., bibl., index. New York: Pi Press, 2004. $27.95

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