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Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

Palevsky

Atomic Fragments - A Daughter′s Questions


Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 603 g

ISBN: 978-0-520-22055-3
Verlag: University of California Press

More than most of us, 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 compelling, sometimes heart-wrenching chronicle is the story of that quest. It takes her, and us, on a journey into the minds, memories, and emotions of the bomb builders.

Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements. Her skill and passion as an interlocutor prompt these men to recall their lives vividly and to reexamine their own decisions, debating within themselves the complex issues raised by the bomb.

The author herself, seeking to comprehend the widely differing ways in which individual scientists made choices about the bomb and made sense of their work, deeply reconsiders those questions of commitment and conscience her parents faced. In personal vignettes that complement the interviews, she captures other remembrances of the bomb through commemorative events and chance encounters with people who were "there." Her concluding chapter reframes the crucial moral questions in terms that show the questions themselves to be the abiding legacy we all share. This beautifully written book bridges generations to make its readers participants in the ongoing dialogue about science and philosophy, war and peace.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Palevsky, Mary

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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

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

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