Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 First Encounters -- CHAPTER 2 Background: Early Years -- CHAPTER 3 University Studies -- CHAPTER 4 Postdoctoral Studies -- Harvard -- Caltech -- Leiden -- Zurich -- CHAPTER 5 The California Professor as Teacher -- CHAPTER 6 The California Professor as Researcher -- More on QED -- Cosmic Rays -- Electron-Positron Theory -- Nuclear Physics -- Shower Theory -- Mesons -- Astrophysics and Cosmology -- CHAPTER 7 Oppenheimer's Opinion of His Own Teaching and Research in California -- CHEPTER 8 Personal Life in the 1930s -- CHAPTER 9 "The Shatterer of Worlds" -- CHAPTER 10 In Which Oppenheimer Enters the World Stage -- CHAPTER 11 An Atomic Scientist's Credo -- CHAPTER 12 The Institute Prior to Oppenheimer's Arrival -- The Flexner Years -- The Aydelotte Years -- CHAPTER 13 In Which Oppenheimer Is Elected Director of the Institute and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee -- CHAPTER 14 Oppenheimer's Early Years as Institute Director -- CHAPTER 15 Oppenheimer and the World of Physics: 1946-1954 -- "The Great Charismatic Figure" -- Building Up Physics at the Institute -- F. J. Dyson -- C.N.Yang -- T. D. Lee -- Of Some Who Came and Some Who Went -- Hideki Yukawa -- Sin-itiro Tomonaga -- David Joseph Bohm -- John von Neumann -- Oswald Veblen -- Oppenheimer as Leader of Conferences -- Shelter Island, June 1947 -- Pocono, March/April 1948 -- Solvay, September/October 1948 -- Old Stone, April 1949 -- Rochester I, December 1950 -- Rochester II (January) and III (December) 1952 -- IBM, April 1953 -- A Book Review, October 1953 -- Japan, September 1953 -- Rochester IV, January 1954 -- CHAPTER 16 Further on Oppenheimer the Man -- Los Alamos Vignettes -- Robert Wilson -- Hans Bethe -- Edward Teller -- Enrico Fermi -- Richard Feynman -- Luis Alvarez -- Robert Serber -- Niels Bohr -- Young Wives' Tales.

Elsie McMillan -- Bernice Brode -- Robert Oppenheimer -- More Personal Recollections -- CHAPTER 17 Atomic Politics in the Early Postwar Years -- 1945-1946 -- October 3, 1945 -- August 1, 1946 -- October 1946 -- December 1946 -- The Acheson-Lilienthal Plan -- The Baruch Plan -- 1946 as the Highest Point of Oppenheimer's Political Contributions -- Oppenheimer's Public Expressions on Atomic Policy: 1947-1948 -- CHAPTER 18 Of the First Serious Enemies and of the First Russian A-Bomb -- In Which the First Clouds Appear -- The First Soviet A-Bomb -- CHAPTER 19 Of the Superbomb and of Spy Stories -- Varia: 1947-1949 -- Shall the United States Develop the Super? -- Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs et al. -- CHAPTER 20 The New Super -- The Teller-Ulam Invention -- Oppenheimer's Views on the Super -- Oppenheimer's Participation in Panels: 1950-1953 -- The Long Range Objectives Panel -- Project Gabriel -- Project Charles -- Project Vista -- Project Lincoln -- 1952: Oppenheimer Leaves the General Advisory Committee -- CHAPTER 21 Atomic Politics in the Early 1950s -- The Doctrine of Massive Retaliation -- Operation Candor -- The Opening Salvos of the Attackers -- May 1953 -- June 5, 1953 -- June 20, 1953 -- July 3, 1953 -- July 7, 1953 -- July 1953 -- August 1953 -- August 20, 1953 -- November 12, 1953 -- November 1953 -- November-December 1953 -- CHAPTER 22 In Which the Excrement Hits the Ventilator -- The Oppenheimer-Strauss Meeting, December 1953 -- Eisenhower Erects a "Blank Wall" -- Preparations for the Hearings -- Oppenheimer and McCarthy -- CHAPTER 23 In Which the News of the Hearings Is Made Public -- How Einstein and I First Heard -- First Newspaper Comments -- Supplemental Material -- CHAPTER 24 "Open Book": The Hearing in the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer -- The Hearing: April 12-May 6, 1954 -- Findings, Appeal, Decision: May 17-June 29.

CHAPTER 25 No Final Judgment -- First Judgments -- Post-Mortems -- Cultural Judgments -- The Sense of Tragedy -- CHAPTER 26 Insider in Exile -- Institute Director -- Science Impresario -- Speaker and Author -- St. John -- Rehabilitation and Retirement -- CHAPTER 27 Cloaked Mountain Peak -- Notes -- Principal Sources Used -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.