Physics and Nuclear Arms TodayDavid Hafemeister, Barbara Goss Levi Physics and Nuclear Arms Today is a collection of the best articles written about the arms race which appeared in Physics Today between 1976 and 1989. The articles explore a wide variety of topical issues such as the effects of nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, offensive strategic weapons, defensive SDI or Star Wars weapons, nuclear nonproliferation and the social responsibility of scientists as well as a wide selection of articles which chronicle the history of nuclear weaponry. The authors also represent a broad spectrum of well known names in the physics community including Andrei Sakharov, Sidney Drell, Wolfgang Panofsky, Edward Teller, Frank von Hippel, Victor Weiskopf, and Freeman Dyson. Of interest to physicists interested in arms control issues, nuclear weapons, and international relations; science and defense policy makers. |
Contents
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113 | 68 |
Japans nuclear program stresses breeders plutonium and safeguards William Sweet | 236 |
HISTORY OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS 242 Einstein and Germany Fritz Stern | 241 |
Physics and SovietWestern relations in the 1920s and 1930s Paul R Josephson | 252 |
Bringing the news of fission to America Roger H Stuewer | 260 |
Reminiscences of the early days of fission Henry H Barschall | 269 |
Scientists with a secret Spencer R Weart | 275 |
COMMENTARY ON THE ERA OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS | 335 |
A peril and a hope Victor F Weisskopf | 336 |
The social responsibility of scientists Andrei Sakharov | 341 |
Sakharov speaks from exile on nucleararms issues Jean Coonan | 347 |
Physics and the military Charles Schwartz | 349 |
Science technology and the arms race Wolfgang K H Panofsky | 352 |
Pontifical academy urges no first use Jean Coonan | 359 |
Teaching about the arms race Dietrich Schroeer | 360 |
Giving peace a chance in the nuclear age Barton J Bernstein | 282 |
The American connection to Soviet microelectronics Mark Kuchment | 290 |
Sakharov in the US on human rights and arms control Irwin Goodwin | 297 |
Celebrating Sakharov Sidney D Drell | 298 |
How the military responded to the laser Robert W Seidel | 302 |
The physicist as mad scientist Spencer R Weart | 310 |
Making weapons talking peace Herbert F York | 320 |
Soviet scientists rebel Sakharov and Sagdeev elected to new congress William Sweet | 333 |
Science and scientists for a nuclearweaponfree world Evgeny Velikhov | 368 |
Physicists sign appeal for nuclear freeze Daniel Gladstone | 373 |
Role of strategic space forces in a nonnuclear world Freeman J Dyson | 374 |
Some physicists speak in favor of Star Wars research William Sweet | 376 |
the new Soviet connection Frank von Hippel | 378 |
APS and Academy members polled on SDI physicists mobilize William Sweet | 386 |
FOR FURTHER READING | 389 |
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