 | Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945–1970; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945–; Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States; Atomic bomb -- Social aspects -- United States; Oppenheimer J. Robert 1904–1967 -- Influence; Porter Jeffre; When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America's atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me , takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries, Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a generation. Jeff Porter teaches in the English Department at the University of Iowa. |
