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American Prometheus may be the first full scale biography of T. John Oppenheimer, “father of the nuclear blast,” the brilliant, charismatic physicist who led the effort to fully capture the awesome fire of sunlight for his country over time of battle. Soon after Hiroshima, he became the absolute most famous scientist of his generation–one of the legendary figures of the twentieth-century, the embodiment of modern man confronting the effects of technological progress.He was the writer of a radical proposal to put international controls over nuclear materials–an indisputable fact that continues to be applicable today. He compared the development of the hydrogen bomb and criticized the Air Force’s plans to fight an infinitely dangerous nuclear war.