[1st ed] The Open Mind

First edition of the paean to internationalism and transparency by physicist, teacher, and administrator J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project during WWII and Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study afterward, and recent subject of a box-office hit biopic. Published by Simon & Schuster in 1955. The book consists of eight lectures delivered between 1946 and 1955, four of which deal with atomic weapons and the prospects regarding their peaceful proliferation. 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 146 pages. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with some chipping to head of spine. Light rubbing and chipping to dj, with a small closed tear at the head of spine. Contents clean and bright.