Format:
xvi, 373 Seiten, 18 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen
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23 cm
ISBN:
9781421425672
Series Statement:
Johns Hopkins nuclear history and contemporary affairs
Content:
Draws from previously classified documents, unpublished manuscripts, private correspondence, and other sources to chronicle the events that surrounded the revocation of scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance in 1954, discussing the roles of physicist Edward Teller, Republican businessman Lewis Strauss, congressional assistant William Borden, and President Eisenhower
Note:
"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2005. Published in Penguin Books 2006."--Title page verso
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Foreword / by Martin J. Sherwin -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part one. 1945-1949. David Lilienthal's vacation -- The maneuvering begins -- The Halloween meeting -- The secret debate -- Lost opportunities -- Part two. 1950. Fuchs's betrayal -- Fission versus fusion -- Teller -- Ulam -- Part three. 1951-1952. Teller's choice -- The second lab -- A new era -- Part four. 1952-1954. Sailing close to the wind -- Strauss returns -- Two wild horses -- The blank wall -- Hoover -- The hearing begins -- Smyth -- Borden -- Caesar's wife -- Do we really need scientists? -- Oppenheimer -- We made it--and we gave it away -- Postlude
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967
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Teller, Edward 1908-2003
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USA
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Kernwaffe
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Rüstungspolitik
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Manhattan-Projekt
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Mitarbeiter
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Biografie
Author information:
Sherwin, Martin J. 1937-
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