Book ID: CBB000320262

Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (2003)

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VanDeMark, Brian (Author)


Little, Brown, and Company


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xii + 399 pp.; [16] plates, illus.; maps; bib.; index
Language: English

Description Profiles nine atomic scientists grappling with the aftermath of the deployment and use of the atomic bomb.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Wellerstein, Alex
Bridger, Sarah
Cioci, Vincenzo
Bini, Elisabetta
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Ruhl, Christian P.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Encyclopedia of the History of Science
Traverse
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Viella
University of Chicago Press
RKhGI
Princeton University Press
Nauka
Concepts
Physics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Science and ethics
Cold War
Science and politics
People
Heisenberg, Werner
Weinberg, Alvin Martin
Supek, Ivan
Planck, Max
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Majorana, Ettore
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Ohio (U.S.)
Switzerland
Institutions
Strategic Defense Initiative
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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