1. The nucleus; 2. Neutrons; 3. Fissions; 4. Chain reactions; 5. MAUD; 6. Eka-Osmium; 7. Serber's primer; 8. The 'gadget'; 9. Smoky and the need to know; 10. Fusion; 11. Spies; 12. Proliferation.
Nuclear Weapons is designed to give a layperson an understanding of both the history and technology of nuclear weapons.
Jeremy Bernstein is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was a staff writer for the New Yorker from 1961 to 1995. He has written some fifty technical papers, three monographs, and twelve books, including Albert Einstein, which was nominated for a National Book Award; Hitler's Uranium Club; a biography of Robert Oppenheimer entitled Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma; and most recently Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element.
"There's no better person to analyze this crucial and fascinating
topic. Jeremy Bernstein is a delightful writer and accomplished
physicist who worked at Los Alamos as a young scholar and has since
written on such subjects as Hitler's nuclear scientists, Einstein,
and plutonium. He combines colorful personal tales with wonderfully
clear explanations. He's the teacher we all wish we had."
-Walter Isaacson, President of the Aspen Institute and author of
Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007)
"Jeremy Bernstein's Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know is an
important addition to the scientific literature." -David
Hafemeister, Physics Today
"...an important addition to the scientic literature." -David
Hafemeister, Physics Today
"Jeremy Bernstein's Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know delivers
as advertised, arming the reader with sufficent historical and
technical background to engage contemporary journalism on nuclear
weapons or to begin more in-depth study of the histories of
science, the Cold War, and related topics." -Edward H. Jeter, World
History Bulletin
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