
A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–47
Alice Kimball Smith
A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America, 1945–47
Alice Kimball Smith
A clear story of the complex events that led first to the dropping of the bomb and then to the development of the political role of the laboratory scientist in the first two years after the close of the war.
- Publisher
- MIT Press (MA)
- ISBN-13
- 9780262690263
- Genre
- Topics
- Atomic scientists' movementNuclear weapons policyPost-WWII politics of science
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1966)
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