Arms and the PhysicistSpringer Science & Business Media, 7 mai 1997 - 295 pages From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. In Arms and the Physicist, York takes us backstage to witness key events of our time: to the Manhattan Project for the birth of the atomic bomb; to Lawrence Livermore where the H-bomb was built; to Washington to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; and to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness. Readers will meet some of our greatest heros and villains--Lawrence, Oppenheimer, Weisskopf, Teller, General Groves, President Eisenhower, and a cast of hundreds--friends, colleagues, enemies, who for more than half a century, held the fate of the world in their hands. |
Table des matières
Making Weapons Talking Peace | 3 |
ARMS AND INSECURITY | 27 |
National Security and the NuclearTest Ban | 29 |
The Arms Race and the Fallacy of the Last Move | 44 |
A Personal View of the Arms Race | 48 |
Military Technology and National Security | 58 |
ArmsLimitation Strategies | 83 |
Thinking About the Arms Race | 96 |
Negotiating and the US Bureaucracy | 151 |
Comprehensive TestBan Negotiations | 161 |
MILITARIZATION OF SPACE | 201 |
Strategic Reconnaissance | 203 |
Nuclear Deterrence and the Military Uses of Space | 221 |
Why SDI? | 235 |
WINDS OF CHANGE | 271 |
Minimum Deterrence | 273 |
POWER AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL ELITE | 111 |
Origins of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory | 113 |
Debate Over the Hydrogen Bomb | 127 |
Eisenhowers Other Warning | 144 |
NEGOTIATING LIMITS | 149 |
Past Present and Future | 278 |
Acknowledgments | 289 |
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About the Author | |
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