In the shadow of the bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist / S.S. Schweber.
Material type: TextSeries: Princeton series in physicsPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0691049890
- 9780691049892
- 172.422
- QC774.O56 S32 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Introduction -- 1. What Is Enlightenment? -- 2. J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Oppenheimer and the Ethical Culture Movement -- The Agenda of the Ethical Culture Society -- The Teaching of Ethics at the School -- The Maturation of Oppenheimer -- Becoming a Physicist: Oppenheimer and His School -- 3. Hans Bethe -- Becoming a Bildungstrager -- Becoming a Physicist: Arnold Sommerfeld -- Wholeness and Stability -- Los Alamos -- Bethe and Oppenheimer: Their Entanglement -- 4. THE CHALLENGE OF McCARTHYISM -- The Bernard Peters Case -- The Philip Morrison Case -- Some Concluding Comments -- 5. Nuclear Weapons -- Atomic Bombs -- Hydrogen Bombs -- PSAC and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -- 6. On Science and Society -- Epilogue.
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