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Dyson Freeman. Dreams of Earth and Sky. New York Review of Books, New York, 2015 (also contains essays about Richard Feynman and Wernher von Braun).

______. The Scientist as Rebel. New York Review of Books, New York, 2006.

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Mason Richard. Oppenheimer’s Choice: Reflections from Moral Philosophy. State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 2006.

McMillan Priscilla J. The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race. Viking, New York, 2005.

Michelmore Peter. The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story. Dodd Mead, New York, 1969.

Monk Ray. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center. Random House, New York, 2012.

Oppenheimer J. Robert. Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1989.

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Pais Abraham with Robert P. Crease. J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life. Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.

Polenberg Richard, ed. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing. Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 2002.

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Schweber Silvan S. Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2008.

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Thorpe Charles. Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006.

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Вернер фон Браун

Biddle Wayne. Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race. W. W. Norton, New York, 2009.

Bower Tom. The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Battle For the Spoils and Secrets of Nazi Germany. Michael Joseph, London, 1987.

Goudsmit Samuel A. Alsos. Henry Schuman, New York, 1947.

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von Braun Wernher. The Mars Project. University of Illinois Press, Urbana IL, 1991.

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Bodanis David. Einstein’s Greatest Mistake: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2016.

Clark Ronald W. Einstein: The Life and Times. World Publishing Company, New York, 1971.

Fermi Laura. Atoms in the Family. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1954 [Enrico Fermi].

Feynman Richard P. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman. Perseus Publishing, New York, 1999.

______. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! W. W. Norton, New York, 1985.

______. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character. W. W. Norton, New York, 1988.

Gleick James. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman. Vintage, New York, 1992.

Goodchild Peter. Edward Teller: The Real Dr Strangelove. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004.

Hargittai Istvan. Judging Edward Teller: A Closer Look at One of the Most Influential Scientists of the Twentieth Century. Prometheus, New York, 2010.

______. The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, London, 2006 [Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Theodore Von Karman, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner].

Herken Gregg. Brotherhood of the Bomb: The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller. Henry Holt, New York, 2002.

Isaacson Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007.

Krauss Lawrence M. Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science. W. W. Norton, New York, 2011.

Lanouette William with Bela Silard. Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1992.

Marton Kati. The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006 [Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann].

Orear Jay et. al. Enrico Fermi – The Master Scientist. The Internet-First University Press, Ithaca NY, 2004.

Pfau Richard. No Sacrifice Too Great: The Life of Lewis L. Strauss. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, 1984.

Rigden John S. Rabi: Scientist and Citizen. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1987.

Rolls Jem. The Inventor of All Things. One-man