The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Fourth Printing. 207, some soiling to rear DJ, ink initials inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. Fourth Printing. 207, some soiling to rear DJ, ink initials inside front flyleaf. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. First Oxford University Paperback Edition. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, [2], 936, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Bibliographical Essay. Index. Inscribed and dated by the author to Paul Belman (?) on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is Volume IX of The Oxford History of the United States. This work was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2000. David Michael Kennedy (born July 22, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian specializing in American history. He is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University and the former Director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West. Professor Kennedy's scholarship is notable for its integration of economic analysis and cultural analysis with social history and political history. Kennedy is responsible for the recent editions of the popular history textbook The American Pageant. He is also the current editor (since 1999) of the Oxford History of the United States series. This position was held previously by C. Vann Woodward. Earlier in his career, Kennedy won the Bancroft Prize for his first book Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book World War I, Over Here: The First World War and American Society (1980). He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1995-6. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 373, illus., maps, notes, index, DJ slightly worn and soiled. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 373, wraps, illus., maps, notes, index, slight creasing to a few pages. More
New York: Simon & Schuster (A Touchstone Book), 2013. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. xvii, [5], 373, [5] p. Illustrations, black & white, Maps. Notes. Index. "Denise Kiernan (born July 31, 1968) is an American journalist, producer and author. She has authored several history titles, including Signing Their Rights Away and The Girls of Atomic City. Kiernan earned a BA degree from the Washington Square and University College of Arts & Science in 1991 and an MA from the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development of New York University in 2002. Kiernan started out in journalism, and as a freelance writer, her work appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, amongst other publications. She has authored several popular history titles and has ghost written books for athletes, entrepreneurs and actresses. Her most recent book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, traces the story of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project, unknowingly helping to create the fuel for the world's first atomic bomb. The Girls of Atomic City became a New York Times best seller in its first week of publication. More
New York: W. Morrow, c1997. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 422, acid-free paper, illus., references, index. A compelling account of the alliance between Churchill and Roosevelt. More
Nyack, NY: Fellowship Publications, 1959. Third U.S. Edition. First Thus? Printing. 234, footnotes, name of previous owner, pencil erasure on front endpaper. Contains "A Chapter for Americans." More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1958. Third Printing. Hardcover. 223 pages. Footnotes, large piece missing in front DJ, several small tears to DJ. More
New York: Hill and Wang, 1977. Later printing. Trade paperback. 127, [1[ pages. This is a Spotlight Dramabook. Translation of In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer This was published in German in 1964. J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Enrico Fermi, he is often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II project that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." After the war he became a chief advisor to the newly created United States Atomic Energy Commission and used that position to lobby for international control of nuclear power to avert nuclear proliferation and an arms race with the Soviet Union. After provoking the ire of many politicians with his outspoken opinions during the Second Red Scare, he had his security clearance revoked in a much-publicized hearing in 1954, and was effectively stripped of his direct political influence; he continued to lecture, write and work in physics. A decade later President John F. Kennedy awarded (and Lyndon B. Johnson presented) him with the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of political rehabilitation. More
Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, Ltd., 1991. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 15 color panels on one large folded sheet. Heavily illustrated/maps. More
New York: Random House, 1968. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. x, 685, [7] pages. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American historian. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and U.S. foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he had also been credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire." Kolko's thesis "that businessmen favored government regulation because they feared competition and desired to forge a government–business coalition" is one that is echoed by many observers today. The Politics of War, was described as "the most thorough and extensive of the 'revisionist' views of American foreign policy during World War II." More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 234 pages. Illustrations. Notes. Sources & Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: For Kent Reed with best wishes James W. Kunetka April, 1978. Also on the fep is a parental gift message dated June 21, 1978. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his novels Warday and Nature's End. He has also written non-fiction on the topic of the atomic age. Kunetka received a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Kunetka's first book was City of Fire. Kunetka explains the technical problems that attended the construction of the first atomic bombs, going into detail about initiators, detonators, cores, tampers, explosive lenses. ATR3 I4 Add this to the shelf of works shedding new light on a turning point in history. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 234 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Sources & Bibliography. Glossary. Index. Signed by the author on the fep. DJ has some wear, tears, and soiling. Front board weak and restrengthened with glue. One page of the photographic insert had separated and was glued back in. James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his novels Warday and Nature's End. He has also written nonfiction on the topic of the atomic age. Kunetka received a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Kunetka's first book was City of Fire. Kunetka explains the technical problems that attended the construction of the first atomic bombs, going into detail about initiators, detonators, cores, tampers, explosive lenses. Add this to the shelf of works shedding new light on a turning point in history. More
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xii, 292 pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Biographical Chronology. Notes. Sources. Index. DJ has price clipped. DJ has some wear and soiling. James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his science fiction novels Warday and Nature's End. He has also written non-fiction on the topic of the atomic age. In 2000, Kunetka was the director of communications and constituent relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He also served as an associate vice president of the university before retirement. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1985. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 546, [6] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor damp stain at bottom of inside of DJ and on the bottom edge of the book (covers and some pages). Dan Kurzman was a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post. Kurzman had written or broadcast from almost every country in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His dispatches from Cuba earned him the Front Page Award. He has also won the George Polk Memorial Award and the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award. More
New York: Grove Press, 2002. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xviii, 364 pages. Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has a tear at the top of back. Thomas C. Laird (born June 30, 1953) is an American journalist, writer, and photographer who specializes in Tibet. He has photographed and written for the likes of Time and Newsweek. Laird's book, Into Tibet: The CIA’s First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa, was the result of ten years of research regarding the life, work and death of Douglas Mackiernan, the first CIA intelligence officer ever killed in the line of duty. He unearthed thousands of pages of documents from the National Archives in Washington DC, and conducted one hundred hours of interviews with more than two dozen primary sources ranging from CIA members to the Dalai Lama. His second book, a history of Tibet entitled The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama draws on over 60 hours of conversations with the 14th Dalai Lama, whom he first met in 1993. More
Cincinnati, OH: Lambers Publications, 2002. Third Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing thus. Trade paperback. [4], 176 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendices. Glossary. Index. William Lambers is an author, journalist, and historian . His writings have been published by the New York Times, History News Network, Newsweek, Chicago Sun Times, Miami Herald, Cincinnati Enquirer, Buffalo News, HuffPost, Des Moines Register, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Washington Post, The Boston Globe, San Diego Union-Tribune, the Boston Herald, and other news outlets. His writings on nuclear weapons have been published in Spectrum, the flagship publication of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization. His books include Nuclear Weapons, The Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Open Skies for Peace, From War to Peace and the Battle of Britain. He is also a writer for Blogcritics and the History News Service. Mr. Lambers is a graduate of Mount St. Joseph University in Ohio with degrees in Liberal Arts (BA) and Organizational Leadership (MS). Lambers was named a Future Five Award Winner at the Mount St. Joseph University Jubilee in 2015. More
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First Edition. First Printing. 333, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliographical note, index, DJ worn & quite scuffed: edge tears/chips. More
New York: Atheneum, 1965. First Edition. 333, illus., maps, endpaper maps, bibliographical note, index, usual library markings, boards somewhat scuffed and wornspine lettering faded. The building of the first atomic bomb. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 496, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled: edge tears/chips and a few slightly larger pieces missing. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 21 cm. xv, [1], 216, [2] pages. DJ worn and chipped in places. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Ink notation on fep and rep. Daniel Lang (May 30, 1913 – November 17, 1981) was an American author and journalist. He worked as a staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine from 1941 until his death in 1981. Lang served as war correspondent for the New Yorker in Italy, France and North Africa. Following the war, he observed and reported on atomic testing. Problems raised by nuclear testing concerning the moral responsibility of scientists remained a keen interest and the topic of many articles. During the Vietnam War era, he became absorbed by the ethical choices raised by this conflict and was one of the first reporters to expose military atrocities against the Vietnamese civilian population. Toward the end of his career, he interviewed aging Germans, former Flakhelfer, about their role in the Third Reich, to focus on how individuals can become implicated in evil through denial and the refusal to acknowledge reality. More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992. Reprint. Second printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 587, [1] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. A detailed but highly accessible account of the life and work of the great scientist (1898-1964) associated both with the development of nuclear power and, later, with its control based on some 200 interviews, exclusive family records and photos, archival research, and more than 300 personal letters from Szilard to his wife that were discovered in 1987. Lanouette's (senior energy policy analyst, US GAO) collaborator, Bela Szilard, is Leo Szilard's brother. William Lanouette is a writer and public policy analyst who has written about the politics of nuclear weapons and nuclear power for more than three decades, in The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Scientific American, and other publications. He was Washington Correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is author of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb (Charles Scribner's Sons 1992, University of Chicago Press 1994). From 1991 to 2006, Lanouette was a Senior Analyst for energy and science issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. More
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons [A Robert Stewart Book], 1992. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 587, [1] pages. Foreword by Jonas Salk. Illustrations. Chronology. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Sandy--With admiration + friendship. Bill L 4 Jan '07. Some edge soiling. A detailed but highly accessible account of the life and work of the great scientist (1898-1964) associated both with the development of nuclear power and, later, with its control based on some 200 interviews, exclusive family records and photos, archival research, and more than 300 personal letters from Szilard to his wife that were discovered in 1987. Lanouette's (senior energy policy analyst, US GAO) collaborator, Bela Szilard, is Leo Szilard's brother. William Lanouette is a writer and public policy analyst who has written about the politics of nuclear weapons and nuclear power for more than three decades, in The Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, Scientific American, and other publications. He was Washington Correspondent for The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is author of Genius in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb (Charles Scribner's Sons 1992, University of Chicago Press 1994). From 1991 to 2006, Lanouette was a Senior Analyst for energy and science issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress. An avid oarsman on the Potomac, his next book will be about the lucrative rise and scandalous end of professional rowing in 19th-Century America. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Television Network, 2003. One of multiple originals. VHS Tape FUJI T-160. Scarce. A special commemoration honoring the late Dr. Edward Teller was held at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, at 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3. George Shultz, former Secretary of State and a longtime colleague and friend of Dr. Teller's, was the keynote speaker. Teller, who dedicated his life to science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and national security was 95. Though Teller had retired in 1975, he continued to work regularly at both the Lab, where he was Director Emeritus, and the Hoover Institution, where he was a Senior Fellow, until just days before his death. Elected officials, international dignitaries, colleagues, friends and family paid tribute to Teller. Laboratory Director Anastasio presided over the ceremony, which included videos, recitals, readings of Dr. Teller's poetry and a color guard presentation. The ceremony closed with remarks by the children of Dr. Teller. The memorial was by invitation only. More
[Toronto]: McClelland & Stewart, [c1959]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 199, illus., index, plastic sleeve taped to DJ, two pages repeated from text after index, erasure on front endpaper. More