From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert F. York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. Throughout his fifty-year career as scientist and statesman, York has been there - at the center of this formidable and fractious era. His is not a dispassionate scholar's treatise, nor is it a reporter's story clipped from the files. Instead, this is a charged, eye-witness ...

War es eine deutsche Atombombe, die die Amerikaner auf Japan abwarfen?
Zugegeben, eine provokante Frage. Es schien lange Zeit alles gesagt zur deutschen Atomforschung im Dritten Reich. Doch die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands und der Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion, die damit einhergehende Öffnung zahlreicher Archive sowie eine Reihe schier unglaublicher Zeugenaussagen bringen neue Erkenntnisse ans Licht und werfen brisante Fragen auf:
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The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall'>From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6, that the Allies had succeeded in their own efforts to create such a weapon. But what they did ...

Alsos was a scientific intelligence mission launched by the Allies in the autumn of 1943 to determine the progress of German research on the atom bomb. With the suspense of a thriller, Goudsmit recounts the circumstances leading up to the mission, the methods its participants used to do their scientific sleuthing, and the reaction of the German scientists on the day the atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. With a new introduction by David Cassidy About ...

This will be the first book that deals with the use of commercial satellite imagery to monitor non-proliferation of nuclear weapons non-intrusively from space by an international organisation. The book deals with both the technical as well as policy issues related to the nuclear weapons non-proliferation issues. The authors discuss how an international organisation such as the International Atomic Energy Agency can use information derived from ...

Verfügte das Dritte Reich über Atombomben und interkontinentale Trägerraketen? Die veröffentlichte Geschichtsschreibung behauptet, das Dritte Reich habe das Projekt der Entwicklung einer Atombombe im Jahre 1942 storniert. Dieses Buch liefert eine Vielzahl hochbrisanter neuer Indizien und unglaublicher Fakten sowie bisher unveröffentlichte Zeugenaussagen, welche diese Auffassung widerlegen. Die Autoren zeigen, daß ...

Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' as incomplete. She argues in favour of a 'nuclear taboo' - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on newly-released archival sources, Tannenwald traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, forces that produced it, and its influence, particularly on US ...

Now available in paperback! ' "Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis presents an authoritative account of the 1994 deal with North Korea. . . . (It) also provides a lively and engaging look into the inner workings of United States foreign policy making that is sure to captivate North Korea specialists and general readers alike.' &#151"The New York Times ...

Rich with human detail and penetrating analysis, this insider account chronicles the remarkable negotiations between the United States and India after three nuclear devices shook the Thar Desert in 1998, initiating one of the most suspenseful diplomatic dramas of recent memory. ...

Goodchild unravels the complex web of harsh early experiences, character flaws, and personal and professional frustrations that lay behind the paradox of "the father of the H-bomb." ...