Word: bhagavadgita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...technical aspects of the atomic bomb. Else concerns himself primarily with the man who built the bomb. But early on, it becomes clear that the bomb itself might be easier to understand. Oppenheimer--the student of sixteenth-century French poetry, fluent in six languages, given to reading the Bhagavadgita--hardly can be filed in the mad scientist category. Else seems to appreciate Oppenheimer's complexity and doesn't try to explain the ultimate source of Oppenheimer's often contradictory behavior. Instead, he offers an exposition: he presents the incongruous, ironic and often darkly humorous facts surrounding Oppenheimer and the atomic...
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