![]() ![]() ![]() However, his research provides him with extremely alarming and unforeseen results.īy Teller’s calculations, sometime around 2030, the sun will eject its outer layer, destroying not only Earth, but also the entire solar system for company. Naturally, his research leads him straight to the sun, which he begins to study in order to understand exactly how it generates its energy. Teller is looking to develop what he refers to as a super bomb, one which uses the process of nuclear fusion to create devastation, rather than fission. He’s working on creating the atom bomb as he did in real life, but his colleague Edward Teller has something bigger in mind. Part science-fiction and part-alternative history, the story begins by exploring the the titular Oppenheimer’s life during his tenure as the head of the Manhattan Project, shrouded for decades in secrecy. Sawyer gives them in his new novel, The Oppenheimer Alternative. One can’t help but think of what these people could have accomplished had they been allowed to peacefully work together on solving some bigger and more important issues, and that’s precisely the chance which Robert J. The greatest minds of the twentieth century were also unfortunately responsible for creating the biggest threat to humanity yet: the atom bomb. ![]()
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