Robato Oppenhaima Gusha Toshite No Kagaku Sha (Chiku Ma Gakugei Bunko Fu 47-1 Math & Science)

[Machine Translation] Theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos, led the Manhattan Project and created the atomic bombs that brought disasters to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a result, he became known as the "father of the atomic bomb," but despite his fame, Oppenheimer himself was guilty of the damage caused by the atomic bomb and its potential to lead to the creation of a more powerful weapon, the hydrogen bomb, and expressed his opposition to its development. This book is a thorough review of Oppenheimer's biography, which has been written many times before, and disputes many of them. Based on a wealth of historical documents, the book painstakingly retraces his footsteps, and reveals the true image of a scientist who was played by politics and deceived.

理論物理学者のロバート・オッペンハイマーは、ロス・アラモス研究所初代所長としてマンハッタン計画を主導し、広島、長崎に災厄をもたらした原子爆弾を生み出した。その結果、「原爆の父」と呼ばれるようになるが、彼自身は名声の陰で原爆のもたらした被害、さらに強力な兵器「水爆」の誕生につながる可能性があることに罪の意識を抱き、その開発に反対の意思を表明していた。本書は、これまでに数多く書かれたオッペンハイマー伝をつぶさに再検討し、その多くに異を唱える。豊富な史料をもとに、彼の足跡を丹念に辿り、政治に翻弄され、欺かれた科学者の実像に迫る。