Robert Oppenheimer,” the authoritative 2005 biography by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Eddie Adams/Associated Press The book took 25 years to write. The authors amassed an extraordinary amount ...

006 seconds to .081 seconds after detonation), Oppenheimer recalled, "a few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory After the first atomic bomb ...