Making weapons, talking peace: a physicist's odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva
York, Herbert F.
Making weapons, talking peace: a physicist's odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva - New York Basic Books Publishers 1987 - 359 p. : ill.
For more than four decades Herbert F. York has literally lived the nuclear arms race. As a fledgling physicist he worked on the first atomic bomb. Later, as the first Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Eisenhower administration, he was responsible for all defense-related research, from designing better boots for the infantry to developing lasers, missiles, and multi-megaton hydrogen bombs. During the Carter administration he served as chief negotiator at the Comprehensive Test Ban talks.
Herbert York's odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva has been a journey from the conviction that military might and national security were synonymous to the understanding that technology alone will never guarantee peace and survival. His candid memoir provides a rare glimpse at arms-race decisions at the highest levels. It is sometimes disturbing. sometimes inspiring, but always uniquely informative on the world's most pressing political problem.
9780465043385
Nuclear arms control
327.174 YOR
Making weapons, talking peace: a physicist's odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva - New York Basic Books Publishers 1987 - 359 p. : ill.
For more than four decades Herbert F. York has literally lived the nuclear arms race. As a fledgling physicist he worked on the first atomic bomb. Later, as the first Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Eisenhower administration, he was responsible for all defense-related research, from designing better boots for the infantry to developing lasers, missiles, and multi-megaton hydrogen bombs. During the Carter administration he served as chief negotiator at the Comprehensive Test Ban talks.
Herbert York's odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva has been a journey from the conviction that military might and national security were synonymous to the understanding that technology alone will never guarantee peace and survival. His candid memoir provides a rare glimpse at arms-race decisions at the highest levels. It is sometimes disturbing. sometimes inspiring, but always uniquely informative on the world's most pressing political problem.
9780465043385
Nuclear arms control
327.174 YOR