In the shadow of the bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist

The Resource In the shadow of the bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist

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In the shadow of the bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist

Title remainder

Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist

Statement of responsibility

S.S. Schweber

Language

eng

Summary

"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 questions about their roles and responsibilities. When the Cold War followed, they were confronted with political demands for their loyalty and McCarthyism's threats to academic freedom. By examining how Bethe and Oppenheimer - two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters - struggled with these moral dilemmas, one of our foremost historians of physics tells the story of modern physics, the development of atomic weapons, and the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

172/.422

Index

index present

LC call number

QC774.O56

LC item number

S32 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Princeton series in physics

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