
Arms and the Physicist
Herbert F. York(Author)
American Institute of Physics (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 7. May 1997
Book
Hardback
XIII, 295 pages
978-1-56396-099-4 (ISBN)
Description
From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. In Arms and the Physicist, York takes us backstage to witness key events of our time: to the Manhattan Project for the birth of the atomic bomb; to Lawrence Livermore where the H-bomb was built; to Washington to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; and to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness. Readers will meet some of our greatest heros and villains--Lawrence, Oppenheimer, Weisskopf, Teller, General Groves, President Eisenhower, and a cast of hundreds--friends, colleagues, enemies, who for more than half a century, held the fate of the world in their hands.
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Edition
1994
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Illustrations
XIII, 295 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56396-099-4 (9781563960994)
Schweitzer Classification