Arms and the Physicist - Masters of Modern Physics Series, by York, Herbert F.
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Arms and the Physicist - Masters of Modern Physics Series, by York, Herbert F.. AIP Press - American Institute of Physics: Woodbury, New York, 1995. Edition: First edition. ISBN: 1563960990. Hardcover, 204 pages. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Index.

Condition: As New.

Contents: From the jacket:

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 o the atomic bomb. Throughout his fifty-year career as a 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 bond; 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 heroes 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, hold the fate of the world in their hands.