Nuclear Hostages
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 252 pages. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, creasing, soiling and chips. DJ is price clipped. Pencil erasure residue on fep. The author was educated at George Washington University and Catholic University. He was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EG & G, Inc, one of the leading high-technology companies in the United States. He also served as Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. During WWII the author worked under J. Robert Oppenheimer on arming devices for the first bombs; after the war, as a principal founder of a high-technology company specializing in instrumentation, he measured the effects of most major atomic tests. He rejects the concept of a limited atomic war as nonsense. Condition: Very good / Good.
Keywords: Nuclear, A-bomb, Hydrogen Bomb, Robert Oppenheimer, Atomic War, Disarmament, Atomic Bomb, Bravo (Nuclear Test), Los Alamos, Tinian, Fission, Operation Sandstone, Operation Ranger, Operation Greenhouse, Bravo shot, Operation Dominic, Bikini Atoll, Rad
ISBN: 0395340721
[Book #12988]
Price: $35.00