American PrometheusNOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb was the most famous scientist of his generation. In their meticulous and riveting biography, Kai Bird and Martin