GRODZINS, MORTON AND EUGENE RABINOWITCH (EDITOR)

The Atomic Age Forty-Five Scientists and Scholars Speak on National and World Affairs

New York, NY: Basic Books, 1963. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. Black cloth covered boards have silver and red gilt lettering to the spine of the book. There is one small, but noticeable bump to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright, though starting to tone / darken due to the acid content of the paper. The endpapers are a solid white color (again with some light toning, especially to the edges). The dust jacket has a couple of small edge tears and wrinkles where the bumping to the covers occurred. The white dust jacket has some beginning toning and there is some ground-in dirt, especially to the rear cover. The top rear edge of the dust jacket has a small spot of darkening / discoloration. "Morton M. Grodzins (11 August 1917 – 7 March 1964) was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, as well as a dean of the school and an editor at Chicago University Press. He is known for coining the term "tipping point" in studies of white flight, such as "Metropolitan Segregation" (1957) and The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (1958). His theories related to Tipping Point were later made famous by Malcolm Gladwell and his book, "The Tipping Point." His book Americans Betrayed (1949) was the first major study criticizing the Japanese-American internment during World War II. His book Making un-Americans (1955) looked at Cold War paranoia in a critical light. Owing to his concern about the threat of nuclear war, he played a leading role in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He also wrote major studies of American federalism, in which he criticized the idea that the federal, state, and local governments operated distinctly from one another. He argued that the governments resembled a marble cake where the different flavors blended together rather than remaining in layers. This concept of cooperative federalism was distinct from dual federalism. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 43888

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: Atomic warfare Morton Grodzins Eugene Rabinowitch Atomic Bomb Atomic Energy Policy Atomic Energy Warfare Science

HILPERT, LOWELL S. (PREPARED ON THE BEHALF OF THE U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION)

Uranium Resources of Northwestern New Mexico a Description of the Stratigraphic and Structural Relations of the Various Types of Uranium Deposits in One of the World's Great Uranium-Producing Regions

Washington D. C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Graphs; This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and stapled binding. This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a small tear to the top rear spine joint and some sunning to the spine as well. The text pages are clean and bright. Included is a tipped in pocket to the rear inside cover that contains 4 maps / plates that are in fine condition.. Very Good .

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N° du livre: 46436

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: Atomic / Nuclear Lowell S. Hilpert U.S. Atomic Energy Commission uranium Geological surveys Geology New Mexico United States Uranium deposits

HYDE, H. MONTGOMERY

The Atom Bomb Spies

Don Mills, Ont, Canada: Nelson Canada, 1980. 1st Canadian Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light ground-in dirt and a spot of blue ink on the rear cover. "In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk working in the miliary intelligence branch of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected to the West. He took with him over one hundred top secret documents that revealed a spy network in North America, a network that had supplied the Soviet Union with the secrets of the atom bomb." "Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents. The "Gouzenko Affair" is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War, with historian Jack Granatstein stating "Gouzenko was the beginning of the Cold War for public opinion" and journalist Robert Fulford writing "I am absolutely certain the Cold War began in Ottawa". The New York Times described Gouzenko's actions as having "awakened the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 45354

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: Atomic / Nuclear H. Montgomery Hyde Atom bombs World War II spies Soviet Union Igor Gouzenko Russia

LAPP, RALPH E.

Space Science Reading for an Age of Change

New York: American Library Association, 1962. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a small format booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some light strips of toning to the foredges. The text pages are clean and bright. "He was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Chicago. After completing his graduate studies at the University he joined the Manhattan Project; and became the assistant Director of the Metallurgical Laboratory. He then accepted a position with the War department General Staff as a scientific advisor on atomic energy. When the research and development board was formed, Doctor Lapp became executive director of its committee on atomic energy. After this he acted as Head of the Nuclear Physics branch of the Office of Naval Research. He wrote Nuclear Radiation Biology, A Nuclear Reference Manual, Must We Hide ? , and assisted Doctor H. L. Andrews from the National Institute of Health in writing Nuclear Radiation Physics. He became an activist later in life and wrote a book, Victims Of The Super Bomb (1957).". Very Good+ .

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N° du livre: 35199

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: Atomic / Nuclear Ralph E. Lapp Space Science Reading For An Age Of Change Public Affairs Atomic / Nuclear

LIFTON, ROBERT JAY AND GREG MITCHELL

Hiroshima in America Fifty Years of Denial

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Grosset Putnam, 1995. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0399140727. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some tiny faults to the laminate on the front panel along with a couple of small spots of rubbing to the spine ends and edges. "His studies of the behavior of people who had committed war crimes, both individually and in groups, concluded that while human nature is not innately cruel and only rare sociopaths can participate in atrocities without suffering lasting emotional harm, such crimes do not require any unusual degree of personal evil or mental illness. He says that they are nearly sure to happen given certain conditions (either accidental or deliberately arranged) , which Lifton called "atrocity-producing situations". The Nazi Doctors was the first in-depth study of how medical professionals rationalized their participation in the Holocaust, from the early stages of the T-4 Euthanasia Program to the extermination camps. In the Hiroshima and Vietnam studies, Lifton also concluded that the sense of personal disintegration that many people experienced after witnessing death and destruction on a mass scale could ultimately lead to a new emotional resilience—but that without the proper support and counseling, most survivors would remain trapped in feelings of unreality and guilt. In her 2005 autobiography My Life So Far, Jane Fonda described Lifton's work with Vietnam veterans, along with that of fellow psychiatrists Leonard Neff, Chaim Shatan, and Sarah Haley, as "tireless and empathetic". " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 45355

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: 0399140727 Atomic / Nuclear Robert Jay Lifton Greg Mitchell Hiroshima World War II Nuclear proliferation Nuclear deterence World Politics

MACPHERSON, MALCOLM C.

Time Bomb: Fermi, Heisenberg, and the Race for the Atomic Bomb the Race between Two Geniuses to Create the One Weapon That Will Decide World War II

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0525244093. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, and a small nick with wrinkling to the top spine end. "Turning down a position at its San Francisco office, MacPherson left Newsweek magazine. Moving into a treehouse in Kenya, he wrote his first novel, Protégé, about a group of former Nazis who try to take over Tanzania, which was published in 1980. The Lucifer Key, published the following year, told the story of a hacker who brings the United States and Soviet Union to the edge of nuclear war after he breaks into the Pentagon computer system. His 1984 non-fiction book The Blood of His Servants told of the search by Israeli journalist Lieber "Bibi" Krumholz for the man who killed his family during World War II. Time Bomb, published in 1986, was about the race to develop the atomic bomb. His 1994 comic novel In Cahoots was about real estate speculation in California. A story about a real-life rancher from Colorado who adopts a baby elephant was the impetus for his 2001 book The Cowboy and His Elephant. Roberts Ridge, about Navy Seals operating in Afghanistan, was published in 2005. His 2007 book Hocus POTUS was a satiric novel about the search for weapons of mass destruction, based on his reporting in a freelance assignment for Time magazine in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 45358

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: 0525244093 Atomic / Nuclear World History The Atomic Bomb Malcolm C. MacPherson Physics Atomic Bomb Physicists Biography

TUGWELL, REXFORD GUY

A Chronicle of Jeopardy 1945-1955

Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some bumping to the spine ends of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears , nicks and rubbed spots and noticeable toning and fading to the spine, spine ends and edges of the panels. "Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 – July 21, 1979) was an American economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal. Tugwell served in FDR's administration until he was forced out in 1936. He was a specialist on planning and believed the government should have large-scale plans to move the economy out of the Great Depression because private businesses were too frozen in place to do the job. He helped design the New Deal farm program and the Resettlement Administration that moved subsistence farmers into small rented farms under close supervision. His ideas on suburban planning resulted in the construction of Greenbelt, Maryland, with low-cost rents for relief families. He was denounced by conservatives for advocating state-directed economic planning to overcome the Great Depression. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket .

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N° du livre: 46661

Catalogue: Atomic / Nuclear

Mots-clés: Atomic / Nuclear Rexford Guy Tugwell Atomic Bomb H-Bombs Hydrogen bombs destruction Politics