The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives
Author | : Edward Teller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Author | : Edward Teller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
ISBN | : |
One hundred nine annotated and subject-arranged references are presented to reports and published literature concerning excavation, natural resources development and scientific applications. Author and report number availability indexes are included.
Author | : Lynn E. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Author | : Lynn E. Weaver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1981 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : P. J. Atkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1974 |
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Author | : John Douglas Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Keywords: Nuclear explosives.
Author | : Edward Teller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Explosives |
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Author | : Barton C. Hacker |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520083233 |
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Author | : Edward Teller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 2009-09-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0786751703 |
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.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1292 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Radioecology |
ISBN | : |