Robert Oppenheimer – Letters and Recollections

Abstract

Alice Kimball Smith and Charles Weiner(eds) 1980 London: Harvard University Press xvi + 376 pp price £12 This book comprises the letters of Robert Oppenheimer mainly between the autumn of 1922 when he entered Harvard College and the autumn of 1945 when he resigned as Director of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory. The editors have most skilfully woven the letters into a nearcontinuous narrative by the interpolation of their own commentary and extracts from a hitherto unpublished interview with Oppenheimer by T S Kuhn.