Completed: 10/10/2023
Recommendation: Nobody
Recommended by: The book behind the movie
Review:
So, wow, there is so much to this book. It has an incredible amount of detail that blew me away. I thought I knew about the brain group behind the atomic bomb, but I only knew part of it. As I learned more about Oppenheimer and how he came to work on the project there was a tremendous amount of stuff that happened beyond simply learning and teaching physics. I learned more about Oppenheimer as a person who was struggling with what the right thing was to do his whole life. I feel like his participation in the atom bomb project is the only reason that we know so much detail. His life was otherwise ordinary in many ways--particularly his difficulty with his family life. How he handled the things he faced, however, was novel. Instead of leaning into the problems and working to resolve them, he seemed to skirt them. It felt like he found physics a puzzle that he wanted to solve, but his daily life held no such interest and his troubled childhood (as a child of luxury, but often on his own) set the stage for the rest of his life where he was provided endless resources, but his personal life seemed fragile. Now, of course, I want to see the movie!
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