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San
Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2002
"'Brotherhood
of the Bomb' is at once an absorbing history of a perilous
time, a political thriller and a moral lesson for the future."
New York Times "Book Review," September
15, 2002
"...The
most commanding history yet written of the internal politics
of the United States during the early years of the nuclear
age..."
Washington Post "Book World," September
15, 2002"
"Herken
writes with an assurance that enables him to cover a lot of
ground swiftly, and to paint the political scientific landscape
in bold strokes...The story is well-crafted and meticulously
researched..."
Richard Rhodes,
author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb:
"Brotherhood
of the
Bomb
is fast-paced,
deeply researched, and
resolves
many longtime mysteries. More authoritatively than any previous
history, it reveals the unseemly ambitions and personal conflicts
among American scientists and government leaders that accelerated
the nuclear arms race."
Los
Angeles Times "Book Review," October 6, 2002
"...Gregg
Herken has written an immensely readable account of the lives
of three physicists who led us into the Nuclear Age...Herken
tells this story with great skill, making excellent use of
copious sources...a well-written, well-documented, exciting
and yet unhappy tale of a crucial encounter between science
and politics."
"The
New Yorker," October 10, 2002
"...meticulous...his
research is impeccable, and he has uncovered important material
suggesting that Oppenheimer, contrary to his denials, was
in fact a Communist during the nineteen-thirties."
Booklist (starred
review):
"Meticulous
and authoritative...Herken had unprecedented access to the
FBI's file on Oppenheimer. Making judicious, not voyeuristic,
use of this source, Herken methodically examines the record
of how Oppenheimer's enemies swirled around him and ultimately
hanged him...This conflicted confluence of science with politics
structures Herken's painstakingly researched and dispassionate
presentation, a work in the league of Richard Rhodes' Dark
Star."
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