Minneapolis, MN: Winston Press, Inc., 1983. 128, wraps, notes, reading list, old price sticker on rear cover. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1969. 616, appendix, notes and sources, index, ink & red ink underlining throughout, binding cracked at p. 300, rear board stained. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. viii, [4], 468 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (January 31, 1896 – January 21, 1974) was a Jewish American businessman, philanthropist, public official, and naval officer. He was a major figure in the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States. In 1947, Strauss was appointed by President Truman as one of the first five Commissioners. He served on the AEC until 1950. Strauss was very disturbed by the security breaches that were revealed in the postwar years, including the presence of Soviet spies in the Manhattan Project. Strauss was the driving force in the controversial hearings, held in April 1954 before a U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Personnel Security Board, in which J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked. President Eisenhower's nomination of Strauss to become U.S. Secretary of Commerce in 1959 was not confirmed by the Senate. More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First Edition. 468, illus., appendix, index, ink initial inside front board, top bd corners & top page corners bumped. Inscribed by the author. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. 380, index, large glue stain & rough spot ins rear flylf, DJ flaps pasted ins bds, DJ somewhat soiled and slight wear to edges. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. First Edition. 380, index, damp stains on lower edge & inside boards & flylves (no pages stuck), DJ stained & small tears. Inscribed by the author. More

New York: The Free Press, 1987. First Printing. Hardcover. xiv, 257, [1] pages. Includes A Personal Note About War. Notes. Index. DJ somewhat soiled and slight wear to edges. Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design). Born in Hungary in 1908, Teller emigrated to the United States in the 1930s. He made numerous contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, spectroscopy (in particular the Jahn–Teller and Renner–Teller effects), and surface physics. In 1953, along with Nicholas Metropolis, Arianna Rosenbluth, Marshall Rosenbluth, and his wife Augusta Teller, Teller co-authored a paper that is a standard starting point for the applications of the Monte Carlo method to statistical mechanics. Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb. He co-founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was both its director and associate director for many years. Teller continued to find support from the U.S. government and military research establishment, particularly for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. Teller became especially known for his advocacy of technological solutions to both military and civilian problems, including a plan to excavate an artificial harbor using thermonuclear explosive in what was called Project Chariot, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller was a recipient of numerous awards, including the Enrico Fermi Award and Albert Einstein Award. More

San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979. Second Printing. 322, illus., map, footnotes, index, small tear to p. iv, rear DJ somewhat soiled and small tear, some wear to edges of DJ. More

San Francisco, CA: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1979. Second Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xiv, 322 pages. Illustrations. Map. Footnotes. Index. Inscribed by Edward Teller on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Vic with best wishes Edward. This was inscribed to Vic Reis a senior U.S. national security official. The first draft of this book was based on lectures given by the author in 1975: the Harvey Prize Lectures, Technion; and Distinguished Visiting Lectures of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1975. One chapter was based on a lecture delivered at Acadia University, Nova Scotia. Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist. Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his volatile personality. Teller was an early member of the Manhattan Project, charged with developing the first atomic bomb, and proposed the solid pit implosion design which was successful. He made a serious push to develop the first fusion-based weapons as well, but these were deferred until after World War II. He did not sign the Szilard petition, which sought to have the bombs detonated as a demonstration, but not on a city, but later agreed that Szilard was right, and the bombs should not have been dropped on a defenseless civilian population. He was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and was both its director and associate director for many years. He was noted for for his advocacy for nuclear energy development, a strong nuclear arsenal, and a vigorous nuclear testing program. More

Santa Fe, N.M. Bear, c1994. First Printing. 24 cm, 609, minor soiling to DJ. More

New York: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [10], 374 pages. Illustrations. Occasional Footnotes. Source note. Index. DJ is price clipped. Based on diaries, tape recordings, confidential documents, and exclusive interviews, this expose illustrates fundamental weaknesses in the defense industry by chronicling the scandalous dealings between the U.S. Navy and General Dynamics. Patrick E. Tyler is an author and formerly chief correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of four books: Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite who Run the Country -- and Why They Can't Make Peace, A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East from the Cold War to the War on Terror, A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China, a history of United States-China relations since the 1972 opening by President Richard Nixon, and Running Critical - The Silent War, Rickover and General Dynamics, a history of the United States nuclear submarine program under Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. In 1986, he published his first book, Running Critical, an exposé of the massive cost-overruns that afflicted the building of the Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine fleet. Tyler conducted extensive interviews with Admiral Rickover and other senior United States military officers, as well as executives of General Dynamics, owners of Electric Boat Division. Tyler continued to write for the Post until 1990, when he left to join The New York Times. While at the Times he wrote his second book, A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative History, which received the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2000. More

Fort Leavenworth, KS: U.S. Army Command, 1975. 112, wraps, illus., notes, some soiling to covers and spine, small tears at spine. More