Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: Oppenheimer: Father of the Atomic Age with Kai Bird & Neil deGrasse Tyson
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
American Prometheus
Buy on Amazon"He is the biographer of J. Robert Oppenheimer, with a book that appeared back in 2005 called American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. And you know why we're talking about that: because that's the book on which the movie Oppenheimer was based."
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Buy on Amazon"Another famous book that references Prometheus is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's book Frankenstein. And, yeah, what's the full title? It is Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus."
The making of the atomic bomb
Buy on Amazon"If it was just about building the H-bomb, the atomic bomb, of course there's already a book with that title, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, right? But also a prize-winning book, by the way."