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Arms and the Physicist (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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Arms and the Physicist (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
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From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert F. York was
swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical
achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. Throughout his
fifty-year career as scientist and statesman, York has been there -
at the center of this formidable and fractious era. His is not a
dispassionate scholar's treatise, nor is it a reporter's story
clipped from the files. Instead, this is a charged, eye-witness
documentary, told in the first person by a principal actor. 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. Along the way, you'll 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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