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Paperback For Want of a Nail Book

ISBN: 1949484041

ISBN13: 9781949484045

For Want of a Nail

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Three nails for J. Robert Oppenheimer, more than half a century after the Manhattan Project.

For Want of a Nail takes as its starting point a series of curious memoranda sent from J. Robert Oppenheimer's office in October 1943 and archived in the Los Alamos Historical Museum, in which the eminent scientist repeatedly requests a nail in the wall upon which he could hang his hat. The persistence and specificity of the request...

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