Thirty-eight years old when appointed head of the Los Alamos Laboratory,
7.Robert Oppenlzeimer (1904-67) became one of the more astute strategic
thinkers about the nuclear age he helped to create. After facing charges
of disloyalty-clwrges as groundless as ones recently made in the much-publi-
cized memoirs of a former KGB general-Oppenlzeimer lost influence in the
highest circles of government. But as Robert Erwin shows, this was far less a
tragedy for the brilliant "outsider"...