Atoms and People
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 304, [4] p. 22 cm. Glossary of Nuclear Terms. Index. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Hardcover. x, [2], 304, [4] p. 22 cm. Glossary of Nuclear Terms. Index. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. 198, map, appendix, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ soiled & worn: small tears, small pieces missing, rough spots rear DJ. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First Edition. 198, map, appendix, slight discoloration inside boards, DJ somewhat soiled & worn, DJ in plastic sleeve. Inscribed by the author. More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1969. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 293, footnotes, glossary, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, small tear at bottom of rear DJ. More
Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Energy, 1978. Wraps. 28 cm. v, [1], 26, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations (tables and figures). Abbreviations and Definitions. Footnotes. Some wear and soiling to covers, slight waviness to document. Each year the National Computer Conference devotes a session, known as Pioneer Day, to recognizing a pioneer contributor to the computing profession. The 1977 National Computer Conference was held in Dallas, Texas on June 13-16, 1977, and the hosts of the conference honored the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) at the associated Pioneer Day. The 1977 Pioneer Day gave the Laboratory the opportunity to survey and record the first 20 years of digital computation at LASL. Four talks were presented: I. "Hardware: by W. Jack Worlton; II. "Software and Operations" by Edward A. Voorhees; III "MANIAC", by Mark B. Wells, and IV, "Contributions to Mathematics" by Roger B. Lazarus. The contents of this report were developed from these talks. Together, they reveal a continuous advance in computing technologies from desk calculators to modern electronic computers. Nicholas Metropolis directed the construction of MANIAS I. The Atomic Energy Commission adopted an overt policy of encouraging commercial production of digital computers. More
New York, NY: Lyons and Burford Publishers, 1993. Revised Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. v, [1], 170 p. Resources. Glossary Index. More
New York: Lodestar Books [E. P. Dutton], 1982. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [6], 139, [1] pages. Illustrations. Chronology. Further Reading. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Review slip laid in. Sidney Lens (1912–1986), also known by his birth name Sid Okun, was an American labor leader, political activist, and author, best known for his book, The Day Before Doomsday, which warns of the prospect of nuclear annihilation, published in 1977 by Doubleday. He also wrote a history of U.S. intervention abroad, The Forging of the American Empire, originally published in 1974 and republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books with a new introduction by Howard Zinn; and an autobiography, Unrepentant Radical. Formerly a member of Hugo Oehler's Revolutionary Workers League, Lens was active in retail worker unions in Chicago and in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War. In 1967, he was among more than 500 writers and editors who signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War Tax surcharge proposed by president Johnson. Lens was an editor of The Progressive. In 1980, Lens was the Citizens Party (United States) candidate for United States Senate in Illinois. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. First/Bk Club? Edition. 22 cm, 274, index, front DJ flap price clipped. While marked First Edition, this could be a Book Club edition. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition. 22 cm, 274, index, front DJ flap price clipped, rear DJ soiled, DJ spine somewhat faded and discolored. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition. 22 cm, 274, index, DJ somewhat soiled: small edge tears/chips. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vi, 281, [1] pages. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Name stamped on top and bottom edges, and fore-edge. The articles contained in this volume were written for a special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a pioneering journal founded by scientists from the Chicago Manhattan Project laboratories in 1945. Its purpose was to bring to the public a full understanding of the reality of nuclear weapons and of their implications for mankind in the future. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. 647, illus., map, index, small stains to fore-edge, address stamp inside front board, some wear to spine edges and board corners. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. 557, illus., index, lib stamps (some crossed out in marker), rear flyleaf torn out, small tears to DJ, lib sticker to DJ spine DJ in plastic sleeve, library stamp on fore-edge crossed out in black marker. More
New York: Harper & Row, c1983. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 807, v.7 only, illus., index, some wear and soiling to DJ, sticker residue inside fr bd, pencil erasure on half-title, edges soiled. More
Washington, DC: Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc., 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. 8, 4 p. Includes illustrations. Three-hole punched. Includes a four page special report on the cliche "Too Cheap to Meter? " More
Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1986. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. [4], 260, [2] pages. Foreword by Richard J. Barnet. Inscribed by author inside the front cover. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Paul Rogat Loeb (born July 4, 1952) is an American social and political activist. Loeb was born in 1952 in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Stanford University and subsequently attended New York's New School for Social Research and worked actively to end the Vietnam War. He also began his writing and speaking career during this time. His first book, Nuclear Culture, examined the daily life of atomic weapons workers at the Hanford site in Tri-Cities, Washington. His writing has received much attention and been cited in Congressional debates. This work was buried by its initial publisher and then pulled from the market for over three years. It was published again because a number of people believed its message was worth getting out--and lawyers helped make it the author's property again. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 262 pages. Inscribed by the author and dated on fep. Minor corner bumps and dings to cover. Minor marks and soiling at the bottom edge. Abbreviations & Acronyms. Illustrations (some in color). References. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Charles Loeber spent over 40 years in the Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC), which includes 18 years with the Department of Energy (DOE) as a Program Manager, and 10 years with Sandia National Labs. In 1991, as the Cold War was ending, Charles was asked to manage the DOE's Nonnuclear Reconfiguration Program where he was responsible for closing sites that brought the NWC to its current size. Charles retired from the DOE in 1994 and then joined Sandia where he helped establish their neutron generator production capability. He is a past-President of the National Atomic Museum Foundation. He also served as the Project Manager to build the new National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, which opened in 2009. In 1998 he began to capture this story in writing. He finished this manuscript in 2001 and donated it to Sandia as a public service. In 2002, Sandia decided to publish this work and make it available for training at the Lab. They also made it available to the public. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2002. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xviii, 262 pages. Abbreviations & Acronyms. Illustrations (some in color). References. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Charles Loeber spent over 40 years in the Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC), which includes 18 years with the Department of Energy (DOE) as a Program Manager, and 10 years with Sandia National Labs. In 1991, as the Cold War was ending, Charles was asked to manage the DOE's Nonnuclear Reconfiguration Program where he was responsible for closing sites that brought the NWC to its current size. Charles retired from the DOE in 1994 and then joined Sandia where he helped establish their neutron generator production capability. He is a past-President of the National Atomic Museum Foundation. He also served as the Project Manager to build the new National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, which opened in 2009. In 1998 he began to capture this story in writing. He finished this manuscript in 2001 and donated it to Sandia as a public service. In 2002, Sandia decided to publish this work and make it available for training at the Lab. They also made it available to the public. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [2], 17, [1] pages (including covers). Illustrations. Staplebound. Classified information is material that a government body deems to be sensitive information that must be protected. Access is restricted by law or regulation to particular groups of people with the necessary security clearance and need to know, and intentional mishandling of the material can incur criminal penalties. A formal security clearance is required to view or handle classified documents or to access classified data. Documents and other information must be properly marked "by the author" with one of several (hierarchical) levels of sensitivity—e.g. restricted, confidential, secret and top secret. The choice of level is based on an impact assessment; governments have their own criteria, which include how to determine the classification of an information asset, and rules on how to protect information classified at each level. Classifications can be used with additional keywords that give detailed instructions on how data should be used or protected. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Lab. 1984. Three-ring binder, approximately 1.5 inches of material, including tabbed dividers, binder somewhat worn and soiled. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, c. 1970. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. 28 cm, 64 pages. Wrap. Illustrations. Slight wear and soiling to covers, white cover. Information for this work was compiled and edited from previously published articles and brochures on Los Alamos history. Weapons whose explosive output is exclusively from fission reactions are commonly referred to as atomic bombs or atom bombs (abbreviated as A-bombs). In fission weapons, a mass of fissile material (enriched uranium or plutonium) is assembled into a supercritical mass—the amount of material needed to start an exponentially growing nuclear chain reaction—either by shooting one piece of sub-critical material into another (the "gun" method) or by compressing using explosive lenses a sub-critical sphere of material using chemical explosives to many times its original density (the "implosion" method). Only the latter approach can be used if the fissile material is plutonium. The amount of energy released by fission bombs can range from the equivalent of just under a ton to upwards of 500,000 tons (500 kilotons) of TNT All fission reactions necessarily generate fission products, the radioactive remains of the atomic nuclei split by the fission reactions. Many fission products are either highly radioactive (but short-lived) or moderately radioactive (but long-lived), and as such are a serious form of radioactive contamination if not fully contained. Fission products are the principal radioactive component of nuclear fallout. The most commonly used fissile materials for nuclear weapons applications have been uranium-235 and plutonium-239. More
New York: Time, Inc., 1961. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Wraps. Quarto. 110 plus covers. Wraps Illustrations (some in color). No dust jacket as issued. Cover has wear and soiling. Mailing label on front cover. Moisture staining noted on some interior pages. Cover shows Atomic Energy Chairman Seaborg. Banner in upper left corner reads :Fallout from Russia The Argument Over Testing. The coverage starts at page 21 with an article entitled The Atom and has discussion of testing and there is a section on Ten Questions & Answers about Fallout. On page 23 there are two columns, including photo, on Glenn Seaborg. The coverage appears to conclude at the end of page 25. There is additional coverage at page 31 on Russian/Soviet Civil Defense preparations. There are also articles about Ishi, and James Thurber. More
New York: Praeger, [1965]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 356, notes, index, some wear/soiling to DJ, some soiling to edges, pencil erasure residue on half title. Foreword by John Masland. More
New York: The Academy of Political Science, Columbia University, 1957. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. iv, 136, [4] p 22cm. Tables. Occasional footnotes. [Pages also numbered 195-330. ]. More
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 191, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Ex-United States Atomic Energy Commission Library with the usual library markings. Cover has some edgewear, other wear, fading, and soiling. Contents include: The New World; The Smallest is the Greatest; Power for Everyone; Power for Everyone--For All Time; A New Way to Travel; A Tool to Reshape the Earth; The philosopher's Stone is Found--Isotopes; To Feed a Growing World; Atoms for Health; The Atom Works for Industry; How Science serves Science, and Tomorrow. The splitting of atoms has ushered in an era of which men long have dreamed. Science and industry have been putting this knowledge in to work and is already helping people to live better and proving its value to modern life. This book tells, in the simplest terms, about these many achievements. Over 100 photographs and drawings make them real and understandable to the reader. More