Who were the silent women whose top-secret work helped shorten World War II? Meet the female code breakers. Embedded within military intelligence and communications, wartime cryptography was a man’s world. But women did much more for secret intelligence during World War II than resupply coffee and shuffle papers. Even beyond nursing and manufacturing, women working […]

The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years […]