The author recounts his work on the Manhattan Project, as Director of Defense Research under President Eisenhower, and as a chief negotiator at the Test Ban talks under Carter

Making Weapons Tlkng

History

York, Herbert F.

World

Basic Books

Making Weapons Talking Peace

In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review and evaluation of the project launched to implement that announcement —the project officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and more popularly as "Star Wars." The authors—a political scientist and a physicist who has played a key role in developing military technologies—provide an intriguing account of how political rather than technical judgment led to the initial decision, and they explain the technical issues in terms accessible to nonspecialists. Judging SDI as "a classic example of misplaced faith in the promise of technological salvation," the authors examine the implications of the program for strategy, arms control, the unity of the Western alliance, its prospective economic impact, and the way the American political process has dealt with all these issues.

A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative (Global Conflict and Cooperation)

Lakoff, Sanford

Americas

University of California Press

Shield in Space? (California Studies on Global Conflict and Cooperation) (Volume 1)

A Shield in Space?: Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative : How the Reagan Administration Set Out to Make Nuclear Weapons ... Studies on Global Conflict and Cooperation)

"Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race," a new book by Dr. Herbert York, Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of California, San Diego, will be released by the publishers Monday (July 27). York, who has been named Acting Chancellor of UCSD effective Sept. 1, provided a permanent chancellor has not been appointed by that date, has been an intimate observer of the nuclear-arms race since the beginning of World War II. "Ever since Germany invaded Poland and started World War II just two weeks before I entered the University of Rochester in September, 1939, my professional life has been completely dominated by the nuclear-arms race," York notes in the book. In the early 1940's, York was among the nuclear physicists who developed the atomic bomb. The following decade he became director of the Livermore Radiation Laboratory, and in the 1960's served as a top official of the Defense Department under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy and as an advisor to President Johnson. He has testified frequently as an expert witness before congressional hearings in opposition to the ABM and MIRV weapons systems. Described by the publishers (Simon and Schuster) as "a manual for survival in the age of overkill," York's book discusses "the complex technological considerations involved in arms development and, most important, the human forces which propel us into the illogic of stockpiling of nuclear weapons." "The power to make life-and-death decisions is passing from the hands of statesmen and politicians to lower-level officers and ultimately to computing machines and the technicians who program them," York writes. York holds A.B. and M.S. degrees from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D. in physics from UC-Berkeley. From 1968 to 1969 he was chairman of UCSD's physics department. In 1962, won the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Memorial Award for "important contributions to our knowledge of elementary particles..." "Race to Oblivion" is York's first book.

Race to oblivion;: A participant's view of the arms race

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

Arms control; readings from Scientific American

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

W.H.Freeman and Co

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W.H.Freeman

From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. In Arms and the Physicist, York takes us backstage to witness key events of our time: to the Manhattan Project for the birth of the atomic bomb; to Lawrence Livermore where the H-bomb was built; to Washington to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; and to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness. Readers will meet some of our greatest heros and villains--Lawrence, Oppenheimer, Weisskopf, Teller, General Groves, President Eisenhower, and a cast of hundreds--friends, colleagues, enemies, who for more than half a century, held the fate of the world in their hands.

Arms and the Physicist (MASTERS OF MODERN PHYSICS)

Military

American Institute of Physics

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