Schweber In the Shadow of the Bomb

Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 39, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Series in Physics

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweber, S. S.

Schweber, Silvan S.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Moderne Kriegsführung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Ausrüstung & Waffen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xvii

INTRODUCTION 3

1. WHAT IS ENLIGHTENMENT? 28

2. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER 42

Oppenheimer and the Ethical Culture Movement 42

The Agenda of the Ethical Culture Society 46

The Teaching of Ethics at the School 50

The Maturation of Oppenheimer 53

Becoming a Physicist: Oppenheimer and His School 61

3. HANS BETHE 76

Becoming a Bildungstrager 76

Becoming a Physicist: Arnold Sommerfeld 87

Wholeness and Stability 91

Los Alamos 104

Bethe and Oppenheimer: Their Entanglement 107

4.THE CHALLENGE OF McCARTHYISM 115

The Bernard Peters Case 115

The Philip Morrison Case 130

Some Concluding Comments 146

5.NUCLEAR WEAPONS 149

Atomic Bombs 149

Hydrogen Bombs 156

PSAC and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 168

6.ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY 178

EPILOGUE 183

Notes to the Chapters 187

Bibliography 239

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

S. S. Schweber (1928–2017) was professor emeritus of physics and the Richard Koret Professor in the History of Ideas at Brandeis University and an associate in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books include Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture and QED and the Men Who Made It (both Princeton).