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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2000 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Core Textbook |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Series in Physics ;
39 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. What is Enlightenment?
- 2. J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 3. Hans Bethe
- 4. The Challenge of Mccarthyism
- 5. Nuclear Weapons
- 6. On Science and Society
- Epilogue
- Notes to the Chapters
- Bibliography
- Index