In the Shadow of the Bomb : : Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist / / Silvan S. Schweber.
In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questio...
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