Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear Age

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Univ of California Press, Feb 25, 2022 - Biography & Autobiography - 367 pages
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
 

Contents

College Years 19301933
18
Tragedy and Transition
39
New Vistas in Photosynthesis
95
Berkeley 19381940
105
Bright Clouds with
122
Pearl Harbor and the Manhattan Project
147
Tragedy and Transition Again 19411945
161
Postscripts on Lawrence and Oppenheimer
178
A Career Builds Under a Cloud 19451948
187
Times of Discovery and Dismay 19481951
209
War with the Establishment As Science Moves
241
The War Is Won 19531955
264
Epilogue
297
Index
331
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