Don’t let that crybaby in here again
Steven Shapin: The Manhattan Project, 7 September 2000
In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
by S.S. Schweber.
Princeton, 260 pp., £15.95, May 2000,0 691 04989 0 Show More
by S.S. Schweber.
Princeton, 260 pp., £15.95, May 2000,
Atomic Fragments: A Daughter’s Questions
by Mary Palevsky.
California, 289 pp., £15.95, June 2000,0 520 22055 2 Show More
by Mary Palevsky.
California, 289 pp., £15.95, June 2000,
“... he admitted in 1954. ‘That’s the way it was with the atomic bomb.’ Silvan Schweber and Mary Palevsky each worry about the gap between moral ideals and moral realities among the scientists who brought the Atomic Age into being and who lived with its postwar consequences. Both are moralists and both have personal reasons for their ... ”
