The road from Los Alamos
As the head of the theory group at Los Alamos, Hans A. Bethe played a
Print Book, English, ©1991
American Institute of Physics, New York, NY, ©1991
History
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780883187074, 9780671740122, 0883187078, 0671740121
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About the Series
Preface
About the Author
THE BOMB: How Close Is the Danger? / Frederick Seitz
THE BOMB: The Hydrogen Bomb
THE BOMB: Brighter Than a Thousand Suns
THE BOMB: Ultimate Catastrophe?
ARMS CONTROL: The Case for Ending Nuclear Tests
ARMS CONTROL: Disarmament and Strategy
ARMS CONTROL: Antiballistic-Missile Systems / Richard L. Garwin
ARMS CONTROL: Meaningless Superiority
ARMS CONTROL: We Are Not Inferior to the Soviets
ARMS CONTROL: The Five-Year War Plan / Kurt Gottfried
Debate: Elusive Security / Kurt Gottfriend and Malcolm Wallop
Space-Based Ballistic-Missile Defense / Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, and Henry W. Kendall
The Technological Imperative
Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War / Robert S. McNamara
Chop Down Nuclear Arsenals
THE FREEZE: The Value of a Freeze / Franklin A. Long
THE FREEZE: Debate: Bethe vs. Teller / Edward Teller
THE FREEZE: After the Freeze Referendum / Franklin A. Long
ADVICE AND DISSENT: Science and Morality / Donald McDonald
ADVICE AND DISSENT: Back to Science Advisors / John Bardeen
NUCLEAR POWER: The Necessity of Fission Power
NUCLEAR POWER: Debate: Nuclear Safety / Frank von Rippel
NUCLEAR POWER: Chernobyl
FIVE PHYSICISTS: J. Robert Oppenheimer
FIVE PHYSICISTS: Freeman Dyson
FIVE PHYSICISTS: Herman W. Hoerlin with Donald M. Kerr and Robert A. Jeffries
FIVE PHYSICISTS: Paul P. Ewald with H.J. Juretschke, A.F. Moodie, and H.K. Wagenfeld
FIVE PHYSICISTS: Richard P. Feynman
ASTROPHYSICS: Energy Production in Stars
ASTROPHYSICS: How a Supernova Explodes / Gerald Brown
Acknowledgments
Index
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