Atomic fragments : a daughter's questions / Mary Palevsky. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palevsky, Mary, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manhattan Project (U.S.)--History.

Manhattan Project (U.S.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Mary Palevsky needed to come to terms with the moral complexities of the atomic bomb. Her parents worked on its development during World War II and were profoundly changed by that experience. After they died, unanswered questions sent their daughter on a search for understanding." "Scientists Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Joseph Rotblat, Herbert York, Philip Morrison, and Robert Wilson, and philosopher David Hawkins, responded to Palevsky's personal approach in a way that dramatically expands their previously published statements."--Jacket.

Contents:

Hans A. Bethe, tough dove

Edward Teller, high priest of physics

Phillip Morrison, witness to atomic history

David Hawkins, chronicler of Los Alamos

Robert R. Wilson, the psyche of a physicist

Joseph Rotblat, pugwash pioneer

Herbert F. York, inside history

Epilogue

Mosaic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-520-92365-0