Arms and the physicist
By: Herbert F. York.
Series: Masters of modern physics ;; v. 12
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Woodbury, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: York, Herbert F.; Arms race -- United States -- History.; National security -- United States -- History.; Physicists -- United States -- Biography.
Description: From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert F. York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. Throughout his fifty-year career as scientist and statesman, York has been there - at the center of this formidable and fractious era. His is not a dispassionate scholar's treatise, nor is it a reporter's story clipped from the files. Instead, this is a charged, eye-witness documentary, told in the first person by a principal actor.

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.

Along the way, you'll 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.