The Good Servant

Making Peace With the Bomb at Los Alamos

by Janet Bailey

ISBN: 0684809397
ISBN-13: 9780684809397
Format: Hardcover

Summary

This is a collection of interviews with weapon scientists, bomb designers and testers that round out a sobering, hopeful appraisal of America's post-Cold War nuclear weapons program.

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 1995
Size: 6 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds

Publisher's Notes

An account of America's most brilliant nuclear scientists putting their talents to use for peace reveals how the once top-secret weapons laboratories at Los Alamos are being used for peacetime research to benefit humankind.

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