I am not a physicist. My background is in philosophy. I wrote biographies, maybe i should start by saying how did i get to write a biography of oppenheimer, why did it occur to me to do that . It began 12 years ago when the newspaper asked me to review a collection of his correspondence and up until that point on a new about oppenheimer only what Everybody Knows about oppenheimer, that he directed the las alamos laboratory, he had security clearance taken away from him, he was director of the institute of princeton, that is all of a new. I didnt know that he wrote poetry. I didnt know that he wrote short stories. That he was an expert in French Literature, that he was, taught himself sanskrit, that he was deeply interested in hinduism, that he taught himself sanskrit in order to read the hindu classics in their original language. Neither did i know about his Political Activities in any detail in the 1930s or his relations with his friends and students and family members. All of which i
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