Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear AgeThis 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 |
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Radiant Science, Dark Politics: A Memoir of the Nuclear Age Martin D. Kamen,Martin David Kamen Limited preview - 1985 |
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