Pandora's Keepers

by Vandemark, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780316738330
• ISBN10: 0316738336
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-06-02
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

They Were Nine Brilliant Men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the awesome workings of an invisible world. They came from many places, some fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb.

Author Biography

Brian VanDeMark teaches history at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PROLOGUE: Nine Physicists and the Discovery of Fission	3	(6)
PART I: A FEARSOME GRAIL	9	(166)
CHAPTER 1: Exodus	11	(23)
CHAPTER 2: The Gathering Storm	34	(16)
CHAPTER 3: The Manhattan Project	50	(21)
CHAPTER 4: The Met Lab	71	(37)
CHAPTER 5: Los Alamos	108	(30)
CHAPTER 6: The Decision to Use the Bomb	138	(37)
PART II: PANDORA'S BOX	175	(166)
CHAPTER 7: Three Fires	177	(16)
CHAPTER 8: An End, a Beginning	193	(28)
CHAPTER 9: The Superbomb Debate	221	(31)
CHAPTER 10: The Oppenheimer Affair	252	(44)
CHAPTER 11: Twilight Years	296	(36)
EPILOGUE: The Atomic Scientists and Today	332	(9)
Acknowledgments	341	(4)
Notes	345	(24)
Bibliography	369	(12)
Index	381