Atomic Fragments - A Daughter''s Questions

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List of contents

Preface 
Acknowledgments 

Prologue 
Broken Vessel 
Chapter 1 Hans A. Bethe, Tough Dove 
A Thousand Cranes 
Chapter 2 Edward Teller, High Priest of Physics 
Martyrs to History? 
Chapter 3 Philip Morrison, Witness to Atomic History 
Pacific Memories I
Chapter 4 David Hawkins, Chronicler of Los Alamos 
Pacific Memories II 
Chapter 5 Robert R. Wilson, the Psyche of a Physicist 
Professor Bethe at Home in His Office 
Chapter 6 Joseph Rotblat, Pugwash Pioneer 
The Old Country 
Chapter 7 Herbert F. York, Inside History 
Outsider History 
Running to Ground Zero 

EPILOGUE Mosaic 
The Problem of Power 
The Bohr Phenomenon 
Being God or Seeing God? 
An Atomic Scientist's Appeal 
What Science Is and What Science Makes 
Life Understood Backward 
Farewell 

Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Sources of Illustrations 
Index 

About the author

Mary Palevsky directs the Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at UNLV.

Summary

Mary Palevsky needed to come to terms with the moral complexities of the atomic bomb: her parents worked on its development during World War II and were profoundly changed by that experience. After they died, unanswered questions sent their daughter on a search for understanding. This chronicle presents the story of that quest.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Palevsky, Palevsky Mary
• Assisted by: Mary Palevsky (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2000
• EAN: 9780520220553
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22055-3
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; popular science, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Military / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare, General & world history, Ethics & moral philosophy, History of Science, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Ethics and moral philosophy, General and world history, Nuclear weapons, Modern warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General