In the Shadow of the Bomb Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist

Name: In the Shadow of the Bomb Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
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ISBN: 9780691127859

ISBN-10: 0691127859

ISBN-13: 9780691127859

Edition: 2000

Authors: S. S. Schweber

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In the Shadow of the Bombnarrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities. When the Cold War followed, they were confronted with political demands for their loyalty and McCarthyism's threats to academic freedom. By examining how Oppenheimer and Bethe--two men with similar backgrounds but divergent aspirations and characters--struggled with these moral dilemmas, one of our foremost historians of physics tells the story of modern…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/7/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



What is Enlightenment?






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


Notes to the Chapters


Bibliography


Index