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 |
Seven The Laboratory Becomes a Barrack 19421945 | 105 |
Eight The Rise of Oppenheimer 19391943 | 124 |
Nine Fission of a Man 1943 | 137 |
Ten The Pursuit of Brains 19441945 | 156 |
Eleven Atomic Scientist versus Atomic Bomb | 171 |
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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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