Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science

by Robert P. Crease and Robert Serber

Book Overview

Peace and War is the memoir of one of the key scientists involved in the atomic bomb and the chief research assistant and intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer. A prominent member of the Manhattan Project, Robert Serber was one of a team of scientists who assembled the bombs on Tinian Island for transport to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was also one of the first Americans to walk among the Japanese ruins after the catastrophe. Serber tells movingly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231105460
• ISBN13: 9780231105460
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher