Title: The Nuclear Muse
First published: August 24, 2000
Description: "John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe's Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists' descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins." -- Publisher's description
Subjects: Energia nuclear (história), Nuclear physics in literature, Nuclear energy, Literatur, Kernphysik, Física nuclear (história), Geschichte, Bomba atômica (história), Kernwaffe, History, Atomic bomb, Kernenergie, Nuclear physics, Nuclear warfare, War and literature, Nuclear energy, history, War in literature