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

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

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. 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

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

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. 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: 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 [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

[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

Golden, CO: Fulcrum, Inc., 1988. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.25 inches by 10.25 inches. [12], 115, [1] pages. Illustrations. Suggested Reading. Includes essays by Dr. Karl Z. Morgan and Dr. Susan D. Lambert. Ex-library with the usual library markings. DJ is price clipped. James Lerager is a social documentary photographer, author of the book ‘In The Shadow Of The Cloud: Photographs and Histories of America’s Atomic Veterans’, and ‘Nuclear History – Nuclear Destiny’ and ‘Mexico: Portraits of Complexity.’ James has mounted 35 solo photography exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, and published in some 30 countries. He holds a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. James received Fulbright Fellowships to teach and photograph in Medellín, Colombia (2004–2005 and 2007). He is currently director of the Documentary Photography and Research Project and photography editor for the academic journal ‘Latin American Perspectives.’ In his photographic work, James uses series of photographs, together with words, to tell stories. His intention in his own work is to use the power of photographs to communicate about complex issues, to engage and inform an audience, and help generate positive societal change. The majority of his photography exhibitions, publications, and book projects are based in extended essays, using photography’s inherent strength as a potentially potent symbolic language to engage and inform the viewer, in ways that words alone seldom can. More

Ann Arbor, MI: The American Journal of Pathology, 1949. Reprint from The American Journal of Pathology, 1949, Vol. XXV, No. 5. Wraps. 853-1027, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations (some with color). Stamp of previous owner, Donald J. Kimeldorf (of the Naval Radiological Laboratory), on front cover. Stamp and ink marks to front cover. Averill Abraham Liebow, born in Austria, was the "founding father" of pulmonary pathology in the United States. He started his career as a pathologist at Yale, where he remained for many years. In 1968 he moved to the University of California School of Medicine, San Diego, where he taught as Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology. His studies include classic studies of lung diseases. Best known of these is his famous classification of interstitial lung disease. He also published papers on sclerosing pneumocytoma, pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, meningothelial-like nodules, pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, lymphomatoid granulomatosis, pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma and pulmonary hyalinizing granuloma . As a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Medical Corps, He was a member of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission who studied the effects of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. More

New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, 1969. Presumed First printing. Trade paperback. 594, [6] pages. Appendix. Notes. Index. Cover has corner creased and some wear and soiling. Some page browning. Ink name on half-title page. Robert Jay Lifton (born May 16, 1926) is an American psychiatrist and author, chiefly known for his studies of the psychological causes and effects of wars and political violence and for his theory of thought reform. He was an early proponent of the techniques of psychohistory. Several of his books featured mental adaptations that people made in extreme wartime environments: Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967), Home from the War; and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986). Regarding Hiroshima and Vietnam survivors or Nazi perpetuators, Lifton believed that the psychic fragmentation experienced by his subjects was an extreme form of the pathologies that arise in peacetime life due to the pressures and fears of modern society. In the Hiroshima and Vietnam studies, Lifton also concluded that the sense of personal disintegration many people experienced after witnessing death and destruction on a mass scale could ultimately lead to a new emotional resilience. More