One World Or None: A Report to the Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic BombDexter Masters, Katharine Way In 1946, just months after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scientists who had developed nuclear technology came together to express their concerns and thoughts about the nuclear age they had unleashed. In a small, urgent book of essays, legends including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer try to help readers understand the magnitude of their scientific breakthrough, fret openly about the implications for world policy, and caution, in the words of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Harold C. Urey, that "There Is No Defense." The original edition of One World or None sold 100,000 copies and was a New York Times bestseller. Today, with the nuclear issue front and center once more, the book is as timely as ever. Contributors:
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... percent of the V - 1's launched were reaching London . In an atomic war even the 9 percent figure would be fatal to London in less than a single day , but the 35 percent figure is the one to ponder . By the time we deployed our ...
... percent of her capacity to produce plant and equipment and only 10 percent of her gross capacity to produce goods and services of all types . These percentages are very small as compared with those required by the war efforts of the ...
... percent of her capacity to a five- or ten - year plan . Before the war the United States spent only about 0.04 percent of its national income for research in pure science and 0.25 per- cent for industrial research . During the war total ...
Contents
If the Bomb Gets Out of Hand Philip Morrison | 1 |
The Way | 14 |
Its an Old Story with the Stars Harlow Shapley | 16 |
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