Oppenheimer, The Open Mind

A rare collection, impossible to find online - until now.

The Open Mind is about two related subjects: atomic weapons and the relationship between science and the wider culture of our times. It is made up of eight lectures given by J. Robert Oppenheimer during the decade since the end of World War II. It contains none of his technical writing on physics. These essays make a fascinating record of change and growth, over ten years, in the thinking of one of the outstanding scholars of this generation.