Oppenheimer's choice : reflections from moral philosophy / Richard Mason.

"In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted the leadership of the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, which produced the first atomic bomb three years later. This book examines the ethics of Oppenheimer's choice to take that job and our judgment of his acceptance, leading to the l...

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Main Author: Mason, Richard, 1948-2006
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Series:SUNY series in philosophy.
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