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Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science Hardcover - 1998
by Robert Serber; Robert Crease (With)
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Peace and War is the memoir of one of the key scientists involved in the atomic bomb and the chief research assistant and intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A prominent member of the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber was one of a team of scientists who assembled the bombs on Tinian Island for transport to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was also one of the first Americans to walk among the Japanese ruins after the catastrophe. Serber tells movingly of his wartime experiences at Tinian Island and in Japan, in letters to his wife, Charlotte, herself a key player at Los Alamos and the only female group leader there. These letters depict simply - almost dispassionately - what Serber saw: the rows of iron office safes protruding from the rubble of Hiroshima; the grazing horse whose hair had been scorched on one side by the fireball but was untouched on the other; the B-29s stacked on the runway "like cars coming back to a city on a Sunday night". Serber is also eloquent about the troubles he faced as a result of his refusal to take part in public debate about the morality of his wartime work; how his opposition to rapidly developing the hydrogen bomb earned him the enmity of Edward Teller and others; how he was investigated and his security clearance challenged, several years before Oppenheimer's. Serber also recounts many previously untold stories involving Oppenheimer, Murray Gell-Mann, Ernest O. Lawrence, Edward Teller, and others. This portrait of one of the most important theoretical physicists of the 20th century brings to life the excitement of Oppenheimer's close-knit circle; the controversy of the Manhattan Project; and the thrill of being present at the creation of so manypioneering discoveries, from black holes to quarks.
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- Title Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science
- Author Robert Serber; Robert Crease (With)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
- Date 1998-04-01
- ISBN 9780231105460 / 0231105460
- Weight 1.22 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 6.16 x 0.83 in (23.44 x 15.65 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Physicists - United States - Biography, Atomic bomb - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-38065
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 05/15/1998, Page 1576
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/1998, Page 641
- Library Journal, 05/15/1998, Page 108
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