Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic ScientistsAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh. |
Contents
One A Time of Change 19181923 | 3 |
Two The Beautiful Years 19231932 | 10 |
Three Collision with Politics 19321933 | 29 |
Four An Unexpected Discovery 19321939 | 52 |
Five The Decay of Confidence 1939 | 71 |
Six The Strategy of Prevention 19391942 | 82 |
Seven The Laboratory Becomes a Barrack 19421945 | 105 |
Eight The Rise of Oppenheimer 19391943 | 124 |
Eleven Atomic Scientist versus Atomic Bomb | 171 |
Twelve For They Know Not What They Do 1945 | 198 |
Thirteen The Stricken 1945 | 210 |
Fourteen The Scientists Crusade 19451946 | 224 |
Fifteen The Bitter Years 19471955 | 239 |
Seventeen Dilemma of the Conscience 19501951 | 276 |
Niels Bohrs Memorandum to President Roose | 344 |
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Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of Atomic Scientists Robert Jungk No preview available - 1958 |
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists Robert Jungk No preview available - 1956 |
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