The Hawk and the Dove: World War II at Okinawa and Korea
Place_Pub: Kittery Point, ME: Smith/Kerr Associates LLC, 2009. 258, wraps, illus., endpaper maps, references, index. More
Place_Pub: Kittery Point, ME: Smith/Kerr Associates LLC, 2009. 258, wraps, illus., endpaper maps, references, index. More
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1964. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. xii, 259, [1] pages. Footnotes. Chronology. Glossary. Further Reading. Index of Proper Names. Subject Index. Preface by Sir John Cockcroft. Ink notation on rep. This is volume 254 of The Commonwealth and International Library of Science Technology Engineering and Liberal Studies. Bertrand Goldschmidt was one of the French pioneers of atomic energy. Engineer of the School of Physics and Chemistry, Doctor of Science, he worked at the Curie Laboratory from 1934 to 1940. During the Second World War he was a member of the Free French Forces, and he participated in atomic research, in particular in connection with plutonium. In the U.S.A. in 1942, and in Canada from 1943 to 1946. One of the directors of the Commissariat of Atomic Energy since it foundation, he had been responsible for chemistry starting in 1959 and became its Director of External Relations and Programs. He was also a professor at the Institute of Political Studies and a French representative at the International Agency of Atomic Energy. More
Washington DC: Brassey's, 1995. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11 inches. xiii, [3], 175, [1] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Chronology. Selected Bibliography. Photo Credits. Index. Minor DJ edge wear. This photographic history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provides the first comprehensive photographic record of the bombings and their aftermath, presenting a history of the two cities before and after the bombs drop and also including photos of American and Japanese politicians and military men involved in the bombing. The atomic bombings that ended World War II remain controversial, both in the USA and Japan. The authors have gathered together over 400 photographs of the two cities and their people, before and after those fateful days. As the 50th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki draw near, the debate over their propriety intensifies. Some argue that Japan was already defeated--that the bombings, especially of Nagasaki, were not necessary. This book profiles the two cities and their people, before and after those fateful days. 400 photos. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 469, [1] pages. List of Illustrations. Illustrations. Glossary of Characters. Appendix 1: The New Physics: the Path that Led to Quantum Mechanics. Appendix 2: Basic Information on the History of Fission. Appendix 3: The Sketch for the 'Super' that Evolved During the Berkeley Conference, Summer 1942. Notes and References. Select Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Peter Goodchild CChem FRSC (born 18 August 1939) is a former BBC television editor, who notably edited Horizon and who initiated the popular 1980s BBC science series Q.E.D.. He joined the BBC's Horizon, becoming a producer from 1965-69. From 1969-76 he was Editor of Horizon, at the time the series was much in its heyday and essential viewing for many people. Under him, it won a BAFTA award (British Academy Television Awards) in 1972 and 1974 for Best Factual Series. He was executive producer of the BAFTA Award winning series Marie Curie (1977) and Oppenheimer (1980). More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 261, [7] pages. Illustrations. Front DJ flap price clipped. Inscribed by the author. Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin (born January 4, 1943) is an American biographer, historian, and political commentator. She has authored biographies of several U.S. presidents, including Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream; The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga; No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995); Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln; and her most recent book, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C. as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. After Johnson left office in 1969, Kearns taught government at Harvard for 10 years, including a course on the American presidency. During this period, she also assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published in 1977, becoming a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career. A sports journalist as well, Goodwin was the first female journalist to enter the Boston Red Sox locker room. She consulted on and appeared in Ken Burns's 1994 documentary Baseball. More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2009. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 402 pages. Illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Notes. Selected Sources. Index. Bottom portion of DJ and book show some damp staining and a bit of waviness. Michael Gordin specializes in the history of the modern physical sciences and Russian, European, and American history. He came to Princeton in 2003 after earning his A.B. (1996) and his Ph.D. (2001) from Harvard University. His first book is a cultural history of Mendeleev in the context of Imperial St. Petersburg, A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table. He has also worked extensively in the early history of nuclear weapons, and is the author of Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War, a history of the atomic bombings of Japan during World War II, and an international history of nuclear intelligence, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2001. Revised Edition. 28 cm, 66 + illus., wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, chronology, slight wear to cover edges. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, [1990]. 28 cm, 66, wraps, illus., map, figures, chart, notes, bibliography, chronology. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2005. Revised Edition. wraps. 28 cm, viii, 115, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations, Chronology. Maps. Notes. Select Bibliography. Some wear and small creases to cover edges. Volume I of the National Security History series, a joint project of the Office of History and Heritage Resources and the National Nuclear Security Administration. A history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during WWII. Begins with the scientific developments of the pre-war years. Details the role of the U.S. government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. Concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Chapters: the Einstein letter; physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the Manhattan Engineer District in Operation, Manhattan Photo Gallery, the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan district in peacetime and Manhattan Project Chart. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, Human Resources and Administration, Executive Secretariat, History Division, 1994. September 1994 Edition [stated]. Wraps. 28 cm, vii, [1], 66, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Maps. Manhattan Project Chart. Notes. Select Bibliography. Manhattan Project Chronology. Cover tear at top staple and otherwise minor wear and soiling to covers. This is part of the Energy History Series. Topics covered include physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the Manhattan Engineer District; the Manhattan Engineer District in operation; the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan District in peacetime. The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the actual bombs. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, 2005. Revised Edition. wraps. 28 cm, viii, 115, [1] pages. Wraps. Illustrations, Chronology. Maps. Notes. Select Bibliography. Cover creases and has other wear and soiling. Inscribed by author, DOE Chief Historian to DOE official Matt Van Sickle on title page verso. The recipient is understood to have been a long-time DOE employee who was a nuclear foreign affairs specialist who also served with the IAEA. Volume I of the National Security History series, a joint project of the Office of History and Heritage Resources and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Begins with the scientific developments of the pre-war years. Details the role of the U.S. government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. Concludes with a discussion of the immediate postwar period, the debate over the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, and the founding of the Atomic Energy Commission. Chapters: the Einstein letter; physics background, 1919-1939; early government support; the Manhattan Engineer District in Operation, Manhattan Photo Gallery, the atomic bomb and American strategy; and the Manhattan district in peacetime and Manhattan Project Chart. More
London: Sigma Books, 1947. 259, appendix, index, small stains to fore-edge, small stains and some scuffing to boards, board corners and spine edges worn. More
Washington, DC: United States, Dept. of the Army, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1960. Hardcover. viii, 565 p. 20 maps (part fold., part col., 1 in pocket) 24 cm. Footnotes. Chronology. Code Names. Map Symbols. Index. More
St. Louis: The Journal of Pediatrics, 1953. Reprinted from The Journal of Pediatrics Vol. 43, No. 2, August 1953, pages 121-145. Wraps. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. Stamp and ink notation on front. [2], 121-145, [1] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. References. In the summer of 1947, under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee on Atomic Casualties and with' the cooperation of the Public Health and Welfare Section of SCAP and of the Japanese National Institute of Health, two of us (W. W. G. and M. L. G.) made a preliminary survey of the physical growth and developmental status of children who had survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The data which we obtained included some physical measurements and x-ray films of the hand and wrist and of various other joint areas of children from the first six grades of elementary schools of those two cities. Comparable anthropometric and roentgenological observations were made also on children in Kure and Sasebo, who served as controls for those in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively. The population of each control city was considered to be sufficiently similar to that of the city with which it was compared to justify the assumption that any significant difference in physical status between the children of a control and of an exposed city might reasonably be ascribed to the direct or indirect effects of the atomic bombing to which the latter had been subjected. Dr. Frederick Snell, who was conducting some hematological studies for the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, aided greatly in our work in 1947, both by helping to obtain access to children and in arranging for X-ray and supplies needed in our project. More
New York: Dutton, 1997. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 301, [1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index. John R. Gribbin (born 19 March 1946) is a British science writer, an astrophysicist, and a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. His writings include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change, global warming, the origins of the universe, and biographies of famous scientists. He also writes science fiction. Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won The TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe, and has written a series of books for Ladybird. She has also worked with John Gribbin on Being Human, Ice Age, and major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, as well as the "in 90 minutes" series of mini-biographies of Galileo, Newton, Halley, Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Curie, and Einstein. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1983. First edition. First printing [stated]. Mass-market paperback. xiii, [1], 272 p. Illustrations. Glossary. More
New York: Pocket Books, 1983. Reprint. Later printing. Mass-market paperback. xiii, [1], 272 p. Illustrations. Glossary. More
Boston: Da Capo Press, 1983. Later printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 464, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1962, here supplemented with a new Introduction by Edward Teller. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon. This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of Groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributions-and Oppenheimer's-while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work. The new Introduction by Edward Teller provides information and perspective not available in the original edition of this important memoir and project history. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1955. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 238 pages. Endpaper maps. Footnotes. Glossary. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Michihiko Hachiya (1903 in Okayama Prefecture - 1980) was a Japanese medical practitioner who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience. He was Director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital and lived near the hospital, about a mile from the explosion's center. A 1984 editorial in the Journal of American Medical Association, indicates "At the urging of friends, Dr. Hachiya first published his diary in a small Japanese-language medical journal (Teishin Igaku) that circulated among medical members of the Japanese communications services. There it came to the attention of Warner Wells, MD, an American physician who was working in Japan in 1950 as a surgical consultant to the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission." It was Dr. Wells, who in consultation with Dr. Hachiya, made the diary to be published in 1955, under the name of Hiroshima Diary. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1955. 238, endpaper maps, glossary, DJ soiled and small tears. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1955. 238, wraps, glossary, covers and spine somewhat discolored and some edge wear. More
New York: Praeger, [1965]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 166, bibliographical footnotes, index, pencil erasure inside front cover. More
Arlington, TX: Aerofax, Inc., 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 232 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Diagrams. Notes. Tabular Data. Index. Includes Preface, Foreword, A Note About Sources. Acknowledgments. Weapon Physics. Postwar U.S. Fission Weapons Development. Thermonuclear Weapons Development, 1942-1982. Weapons Types: Development & Delivery Systems. Arming & Fuzing: Techniques & Equipment. Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Hansen's documents were obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and since his death have been housed at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. In 1988, Hansen wrote the book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History, which, along with great detail about the process of developing, testing and administering atomic weapons was critical of the U.S. Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and some other government agencies. In the book Hansen reported that the early years of nuclear testing were less successful than claimed; bombs failed, or yielded smaller or larger explosions than anticipated or announced, and attempts to develop a radioactivity-free bomb were unsuccessful. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History is currently out of print. More
Arlington, TX: Aerofax, Inc., 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.75 inches by 11.25 inches. 232 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Maps. Diagrams. Notes. Tabular Data. Index. DJ worn, soiled and has some moisture staining, inside and out. Boards and text to not appear impacted. Some corner bumping. Includes Preface, Foreword, A Note About Sources. Acknowledgments. Weapon Physics. Postwar U.S. Fission Weapons Development. Thermonuclear Weapons Development, 1942-1982. Weapons Types: Development & Delivery Systems. Arming & Fuzing: Techniques & Equipment. Chuck Hansen (May 13, 1947 - March 26, 2003) was the compiler, over a period of 30 years, of the world's largest private collection of unclassified documents on how America developed atomic and thermonuclear weapons. Hansen's documents were obtained through the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and since his death have been housed at the National Security Archive at George Washington University. In 1988, Hansen wrote the book U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History, which, along with great detail about the process of developing, testing and administering atomic weapons was critical of the U.S. Defense Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and some other government agencies. In the book Hansen reported that the early years of nuclear testing were less successful than claimed; bombs failed, or yielded smaller or larger explosions than anticipated or announced, and attempts to develop a radioactivity-free bomb were unsuccessful. U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History is currently out of print. More