In the shadow of the bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the moral responsibility of the scientist /
S.S. Schweber.
- xviii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Princeton series in physics .
- Princeton series in physics. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Introduction -- What Is Enlightenment? -- 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 -- Hans Bethe -- Becoming a Bildungstrager -- Becoming a Physicist: Arnold Sommerfeld -- Wholeness and Stability -- Los Alamos -- Bethe and Oppenheimer: Their Entanglement -- THE CHALLENGE OF McCARTHYISM -- The Bernard Peters Case -- The Philip Morrison Case -- Some Concluding Comments -- Nuclear Weapons -- Atomic Bombs -- Hydrogen Bombs -- PSAC and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty -- On Science and Society -- Epilogue. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967 Bethe, Hans A. 1906-2005
Atomic bomb--Moral and ethical aspects--United States Nuclear physicists--United States--Biography