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Book Atomic Bill

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vincent Kiernan
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501766007
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Atomic Bill written by Vincent Kiernan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, some assessed Laurence as a propagandist defending the militarization of atomic energy. For others, he was a skilled science communicator who provided the public with a deep understanding of the atomic bomb. Laurence leveraged his perch at the Times to engage in paid speechmaking, book writing, filmmaking, and radio broadcasting. His work for the Times declined in quality even as his relationships with people in power grew closer and more lucrative. Atomic Bill reveals extraordinary ethical lapses by Laurence such as a cheating scandal at Harvard University and plagiarizing from press releases about atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. In 1963 a conflict of interest related to the 1964 World's Fair in New York City led to his forced retirement from the Times. Kiernan shows Laurence to have set the trend, common among today's journalists of science and technology, to prioritize gee-whiz coverage of discoveries. That approach, in which Laurence served the interests of governmental official and scientists, recommends a full revision of our understanding of the dawn of the atomic era.

Book My Journey at the Nuclear Brink

Download or read book My Journey at the Nuclear Brink written by William Perry and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Perry has long been one of the more strenuous advocates for confronting the dangers of the nuclear age, and his engaging memoir explains why.” —Foreign Affairs My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it. This book traces his thought process as he journeys from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration to offset the Soviets’ numeric superiority in conventional forces, to presiding over the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007, with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger, of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons and to lay out the urgent steps needed to reduce nuclear dangers. “Perry’s authoritative memoir. . . . is a clear, sobering and, for many, surprising warning that the danger of a nuclear catastrophe today is actually greater than it was during that era of U.S.-Soviet competition…a significant and insightful memoir and a necessary read.” —Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report

Book Atomic Energy Act of 1946

Download or read book Atomic Energy Act of 1946 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Day the World Went Nuclear

Download or read book The Day the World Went Nuclear written by Bill O'Reilly and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender, despite a massive and mounting death toll. Meanwhile, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. Newly inaugurated president Harry Truman faces the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing the Rising Sun, with characteristically gripping storytelling, this story explores the decision to use the atom bomb and the end of World War II in the Pacific.

Book Hiroshima

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hersey
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2020-06-23
  • ISBN : 0593082362
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Hiroshima written by John Hersey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize–winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through the hours and days that followed. Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, Hersey went back to Hiroshima in search of the people whose stories he had told, and his account of what he discovered is now the eloquent and moving final chapter of Hiroshima.

Book AEC  Omnibus  Bill

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book AEC Omnibus Bill written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation repealing AEC reservation of fissionable materials on Federal conveyed lands and on revising AEC contracting and security clearance authority.

Book AEC  omnibus  Bill

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 93 pages

Download or read book AEC omnibus Bill written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers legislation repealing AEC reservation of fissionable materials on Federal conveyed lands and on revising AEC contracting and security clearance authority.

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Atom

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  • Author : Philip L. Cantelon
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9780812213546
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book The American Atom written by Philip L. Cantelon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this edition (first in 1984), the editors have updated the collection of primary documents which tell the story of atomic energy in the US from the discovery of fission through the development of nuclear weapons, international proliferation, and attempts at control. The book also includes a new chapter, reflects on Chernoyl, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II

Download or read book The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II written by Herbert Feis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book AEC Omnibus Bills  1961

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book AEC Omnibus Bills 1961 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2117 and companion bill H.R. 7798, to amend Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to return to state of California certain lands in Alameda County and the EURATOM Cooperation Act of 1958 to supply plutonium to Euratom.

Book Atomic Doctors

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  • Author : James L. Nolan
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2020-08-06
  • ISBN : 0674248635
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Atomic Doctors written by James L. Nolan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity. A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 92d Congress  1st Session

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 92d Congress 1st Session written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 86th Congress  1st Session

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 86th Congress 1st Session written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 86th Congress  1st Session

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 86th Congress 1st Session written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 90th Congress  1st Session

Download or read book Atomic Energy Legislation Through 90th Congress 1st Session written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: