1st Edition
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear Weapons and the Transformation of Warfare
Introduction Part One: Chain Reactions Chapter One: The Science and the Scientists, 1895-1939 Chapter Two: The First Nuclear Arms Race, 1939-1943 Part Two: Rapid Assembly Chapter Three: "One Grand Final Exam Day," 1943-1945 Chapter Four: "I am become Death" Part Three: Two Scorpions in a Bottle Chapter Five: Wasting Assets, 1945-1952 Chapter Six: The Cross of Iron Chapter Seven: "Solution Unsatisfactory" Chapter Eight: ANADYR Part Four: "we all breathe the same air" Chapter Nine: The Politics of Parity Part Five: The Weapon of the Weak Chapter Ten: Sweet Dreams and Suicide Machines Epilogue Index
Biography
Albert I. Berger is Associate Professor of History and Peace Studies at the University of North Dakota. His previous publications include The Magic That Works: John W. Campbell and the American Response to Technology (1993) and Divided Germany during the Cold War, 1945-1962 (2001).
"A lively and provocative study of one of the great specters that has hung over the Earth since 1945. A timely work, given the current state of the world."
— Richard L. DiNardo, author of Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse
"Berger’s fascinating and well-written "biography" of the atomic bomb, from X-rays to Iranian centrifuges, introduces the science, the major people, ideas, events, and efforts at control. Told within the context of world tensions and Niels Bohr’s principle of complementarity, it illuminates the problems and pitfalls of nuclear weapons."
— Joseph C. Fitzharris, editor of Patton’s Fighting Bridge Builders
"Berger provides an astute yet brief synthesis of the history of the nuclear age, in particular the effect of the bomb on foreign relations and the planning of war. Summing Up: Recommended."
— B. C. Odom, CHOICE Reviews
