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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.
First published in 1976, The Advisors is an absorbing look at the
technical, strategic, and human aspects of the great debate that
led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb. Based on the
author's own participation in Project Superbomb, on interviews with
other participants, and on declassified documents, this book
explains the complete background to this major acceleration of the
nuclear arms race. For the reissue, the author has written a new
preface and epilogue. The reissue also includes a recently
declassified essay by Hans A. Beths discussing the history of the
H-bomb project from his unique vantage point as Director of the
Theoretical Division at Los Aloamos. He has revised the essay
specifically for inclusion in this book.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1989.
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