Peace and War
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0231105460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A prominent member of the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber was one of a team of scientists who assembled the bombs on Tinina Island for transport to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was also one of the first Americans to walk among the Japanese ruins after the catastrophe. This revealing self portrait is the story of Serber's life before, during, and after World War II.
Dr. Nuclear Physicist said NUCLEARIST. LOT OF INTERESTING TIDBITS; SOME OVERDONE. DISAPPOINTING LACK OF DETAIL ON PEOPLE HE WORKED WITH; PARTICULARLY OPPENHEIMER.. A wonderful, readable, 1st-hand account of 20th-C. physics. A Customer Serber, one of the most important and influential physicists of this century, tells it all. His perceptive and candid accounts of Los Alamos, Hiroshima, and US physics before and after WWII is amongst the best I have ever read. Of particular interest are a series of transcribed letters Serber and his wife exchanged while Serber was leading a group to Japan to study the effects of the bombs. These original accounts of his first impressions, untempered by decades of reflection, alone make this book worth reading. Any scientist, historian or well-read person will enjoy and learn from Serber's reminis. A fascinating story by a nuclear pioneer Stephen M. St Onge Robert Serber was J. Robert Oppenheimer's student, friend, and first recruit for the atomic bomb laboratory at Los Alamos. Serber recounts this, as well as the most of the rest of his life, in an engaging informal style. I wish he'd been a little more forthcoming about his and Oppenheimer's politics, but even the little bit he tells adds vital new information to these subjects. He also recaptures how the A-bomb project looked to people who were AT WAR, who actually had to choose between killing the enemy and letting their countrymen be killed. Highly Recommended.
Seber, one of the most important theoretical physicists of this century, was a key member of the Manhattan Project, which developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War ll. Historian Crease provides an excellent introduction, putting Serber and his work into the context of the times. Serber died in June 1997. From Library Journal Nonphysicists will find parts of this fascinating memoir unintelligible, but that should not be a deterrent. Serber's style is very matter of fact no matte