When weapon builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system—the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a virtually unlimited source of ...

[Read by Jeff Cummings]In this magisterial biography twenty-five years in the making and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the authors capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in t...