Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons: From Fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty 1939-63 (Control of Nature) - Softcover

Badash, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0391038745 ISBN 13: 9780391038745

Publisher: Humanities Press International Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Here the development of nuclear weapons is viewed from the perspective of the scientist. From the discovery of fission to the Manhattan Project, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the arms race and early steps toward arms control, this book provides a context for developments in the period 1939-1963.
Lawrence Badash traces the course of this tumultuous and apocalyptic period with scientific clarity and sympathetic understanding.

About this title

Review

""[Badash's] admirable book . . . is authoritative (good bibliography), and yet it is good reading."

"[Badash's] admirable book . . . is authoritative (good bibliography), and yet it is good reading."

-Choice

About the Author

Lawrence Badash is Professor of History of Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and head of its program in History of Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humanities Press International Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0391038745
• ISBN 13: 9780391038745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112