- He was a nuclear-weapons historian who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for co-writing (with Kai Bird) "American Prometheus," a biography of Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- He taught at Princeton, Tufts, and George Mason University.
- He originally planned to go to medical school, but eventually switched to history. After graduating from Dartmouth, he served in the Navy for four years. He received a PhD from UCLA.
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