Brighter Than an Thousand Suns; a Personal History of the Atomic Scientists. Translated by James Cleugh
Author: Robert Jungk
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 369
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Author: Robert Jungk
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Published: 1958
Total Pages: 369
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780156141505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear fission was possible and then became concerned about its implications. Index. Translated by James Cleugh.
Author: Robert JUNGK
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 351
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 986
ISBN-13: 1134263015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author: H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987-04-24
Total Pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780521275606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are structured by complex ethical, economic, and political interests. Drs. Engelhardt and Caplan have brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the sciences and humanities, who sketch a theory of scientific controversy and attempt to provide recommendations about the ways in which both scientists and the public ought to seek more informed resolutions of highly contentious issues in science and technology. Scientific Controversies is offered as a contribution to the better understanding of the roles of both science and nonscientific interests in disputes and controversies pertaining to science and technology.
Author: Andrew J. Rotter
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-02-28
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 019157791X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. However, the controversy over the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb has tended to obscure a number of fundamental and sobering truths about the development of this fearsome weapon. The principle of killing thousands of enemy civilians from the air was already well established by 1945 and had been practised on numerous occasions by both sides during the Second World War. Moreover, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was conceived and built by an international community of scientists, not just by the Americans. Other nations (including Japan and Germany) were also developing atomic bombs in the first half of the 1940s, albeit hapharzardly. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any combatant nation foregoing the use of the bomb during the war had it been able to obtain one. The international team of scientists organized by the Americans just got there first. As this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by a US pilot that hot August morning in 1945 was in many ways the world's offspring, in both a technological and a moral sense. And it was the world that would have to face its consequences, strategically, diplomatically, and culturally, in the years ahead.
Author: John Cornwell
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-09-28
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 1101640154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eye-opening account of the rise of science in Germany through to Hitler’s regime, and the frightening Nazi experiments that occurred during the Reich A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world, Hitler's Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.
Author: Dr J Richardson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1136345191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. It shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical management, and careful preparation of terroristic acts.
Author: Jacques Richardson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780714682693
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. It shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical management, and careful preparation of terroristic acts.
Author: Barton C. Hacker
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520058521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses tolerance and protection standards, and looks at the Los Alamos and Trinity testing sites