Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey In Science And PoliticsBasic Books, 2009/09/09 - 672 ページ Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines--passionate and humorous, devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully as he does here. We learn his true position on everything from the bombing of Japan to the pursuit of weapons research in the post-war years. In clear and compelling prose, Teller chronicles the people and events that shaped him as a scientist, beginning with his early love of music and math, and continuing with his study of quantum physics under Werner Heisenberg. He also describes his relationships with some of the century's greatest minds--Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Szilard, von Neumann--and offers an honest assessment of the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, the founding of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and his complicated relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer.Rich and humanizing, this candid memoir describes the events that led Edward Teller to be honored or abhorred, and provides a fascinating perspective on the ability of a single individual to affect the course of history. |
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Introduction | 1 |
How Many Seconds in a Year? 19081913 | 3 |
Learning About War Revolution and Peace 19141919 | 8 |
The Other Side of the War Years 19141919 | 17 |
Romanian Interlude 19191920 | 24 |
My Name is KoKó 19201925 | 31 |
How to Become a Physicist the Hard Way 19261928 | 43 |
Brave New World 19281929 | 53 |
Our Doubts Have a Firm Foundation 1950 | 291 |
Damn the Torpedoes November 1950April 1951 | 309 |
Pleasures in the Pacific Perils at Princeton April 1951September 1951 | 320 |
The Campaign for a Second Weapons Laboratory November 1951July 1952 | 330 |
The New Wheel Spins a Bit 19521954 | 343 |
Other Nuclear Affairs 19491955 | 360 |
The Oppenheimer Hearing April 12 1954May 6 1954 | 369 |
Sequelae June 1954February 1955 | 385 |
Journeymen Year in Physics 19291930 64 | 64 |
The Pleasures of Small Successes 19301933 | 72 |
The Future Becomes Obvious 1933 | 82 |
Copenhagen 19331934 | 94 |
The Joy of Being a Foreigner 19341935 | 109 |
First Years in the United States 19351941 | 122 |
Fission 19391941 | 138 |
Academicians Go to Work 19411943 | 153 |
Settling in at Los Alamos March 1943November 1943 | 166 |
On and Off the Mesa November 1943January 1945 | 184 |
An End A Beginning 1945 | 198 |
Give It Back to the Indians 19451946 | 213 |
Incomplete Answers 1946 | 228 |
Among Friends From Home February 1946June 1949 | 239 |
The Reactor Safeguard Committee 19471949 | 263 |
Twenty Years Too Soon June 1949January 1950 | 273 |
Three Friends August 1954August 1958 | 402 |
Down to Earth 19551958 | 415 |
The Directorship 19581960 | 436 |
A Few Lessons in Political Affairs 19551960 | 453 |
The Temperature of the Cold War Rises 19601965 | 461 |
Educating Inventive Engineers 19611975 | 476 |
Uphill 19641972 | 492 |
Choices Critical and Otherwise 19731979 | 514 |
Strategic Defense 19801992 | 525 |
Other IssuesPublic and Private 19801990 | 541 |
Homecoming 19902000 | 551 |
Epilogue | 562 |
In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer | 570 |
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