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Oppenheimer and Rabi: American Cold War Physicists as Public Intellectuals (2009)

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Physics Science and society Cold War 20th century, late United States Rabi, Isidor Isaac Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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Authors & Contributors
Kaiser, David Isaac
Hecht, David K.
Robinson, Walter V.
Lipton, Beryl C. D.
Brown, J. Patrick
Morisy, Michael
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Journal of Popular Culture
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
Technology and Culture
Representations
Publishers
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Pittsburgh Press
The MIT Press
Cornell University Press
University of Pennsylvania
Concepts
Cold War
Science and society
Physics
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and politics
Science and war; science and the military
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Teller, Edward
Kalašnikov, Mihail Timofeevič
Leary, Timothy
Rosenfeld, Arthur H.
Craven, John P.
Time Periods
20th century, late
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Japan
Germany
France
China
Institutions
Project Vista
University of Pennsylvania
California Institute of Technology
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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