Fallout: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

(October 2001)

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Ground Zero, Trinity: July 15, 1945

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The Trinity test site

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Fallout

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Title page; list of available books; introduction; front matter

Contents (Table of Contents: 4)

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Prologue: 1996 (Table of Contents: 6)

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Edward Teller (quotation)

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So in the case of stroke, we always conduct a test for mental acuity.

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non-fiction

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Edward Teller; nurse

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Nurses test their patient's acuity by asking if he is the famous Dr. Teller. No, he replies. I am the INFAMOUS Edward Teller.

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Hospital; nurse; scientist

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Birth (1932-1939) (Table of Contents: 9)

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Leo Szilard (quotation)

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Section title pages. Quote from Szilard.

"Spring, 1933: London" (Table of Contents: 10)

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Jim Ottaviani (credited); H. G. Wells (excerpt)

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non-fiction

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Leo Szilard; Sir William Beveridge; Albert Einstein; Alexander Sachs; Franklin D. Roosevelt

Synopsis

Szilard, having escaped Nazi Germany, visits Beveridge in London to discuss scientists' contributions to the coming war, then comes to an understanding of the nuclear chain reaction. In America he convinces Einstein to write the President about the prospects of a nuclear bomb. Sachs carries the letter to Roosevelt, who orders action on the matter.

Keywords

Atom; chain reaction; Germany; London; Nazi; physicist; physics; President; science; science fiction; scientist

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Includes an eight-page interlude in which Szilard envisions the implications of The World Set Free, by H. G. Wells. Art in this interlude by Chris Kemple. Main story art by Robin Thompson and Janine Johnston.

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Niels Bohr (quotation)

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Columbia University faculty men's club.

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non-fiction

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Enrico Fermi; Leo Szilard

Synopsis

The excitable Szilard pesters Fermi about an atomic bomb, but Fermi remains doubtful.

Keywords

Columbia University; physicist; physics; science; scientist

School (1942) (Table of Contents: 13)

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (quotation); Wolfgang Pauli (quotation)

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Section title pages. Quotes from Pauli and Oppenheimer.

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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Vincent Locke (credited as Vince Locke)

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Nate Pride (credited) (assists); Vincent Locke (credited as Vince Locke)

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University of California, Berkely June, 1942.

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non-fiction

Characters

J. Robert Oppenheimer; General Leslie R. Groves; Leo Szilard; Enrico Fermi

Synopsis

Oppenheimer bickers with Groves and other military personnel over security concerns, but together they drive the project forward. Szilard and Fermi quarrel over the atomic pile and scramble to find materials, but together they create the first nuclear reactor, and the first controlled chain reaction.

Keywords

Atom; atomic; atomic pile; Berkeley; chain reaction; Chicago; Columbia University; Manhattan Project; nuclear; nuclear reactor; physicist; physics; University of Chicago; World War II

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Interlude: A Los Alamos Primer (Table of Contents: 16)

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Bernie Mireault (credited)

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Los Alamos.

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non-fiction

Characters

J. Robert Oppenheimer; General Leslie R. Groves

Synopsis

Groves is introduced to the scientists at Los Alamos, as Oppenheimer prepares to reveal their purpose.

Keywords

Los Alamos; Manhattan Project

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Work (1945) (Table of Contents: 19)

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Norris Bradbury (quotation)

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Section title pages. Note from Bradbury.

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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Vincent Locke (credited as Vince Locke)

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Nate Pride (credited) (assists); Vincent Locke (credited as Vince Locke)

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Manhattan engineering district.

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non-fiction

Characters

J. Robert Oppenheimer; General Leslie R. Groves; Bob Serber; Leo Szilard; Enrico Fermi

Synopsis

As most of the "Manhattan" scientists race to solve the final problems of the atomic bomb, Szilard campaigns against its use on Japan. The test blast at Trinity site is staggeringly successful.

Keywords

Atom bomb; atomic bomb; Los Alamos; Manhattan Project; New Mexico; nuclear bomb; physicist; physics; science; scientist

Interlude: "The Beginning or the End" (Table of Contents: 21)

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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Hollywood.

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Le Szilard; Gertrud [Trude] Weiss; federal agent

Synopsis

Szilard participates in making a movie on the Manhattan Project, then makes a speech calling the nation to reduce its military expenditures. He well knows that the small audience includes a federal agent keeping tabs on him.

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Movie; surveillance

Death (1954- ) (Table of Contents: 23)

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H. G. Wells (quotation)

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Section title pages. Quote from Wells.

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Jim Ottaviani (credited); Gordon Gray (letter); Kenneth D. Nichols (letter); J. Robert Oppenheimer (letter); Thomas A. Morgan (letter); Lloyd K. Garrison (letter)

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Hm... Szilard says here that with all I know...

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J. Robert Oppenheimer; Lloyd K. Garrison; Harry S. Truman; General Leslie R. Groves; Hans Bethe; Enrico Fermi; I.I. Rabi; Edward Teller; Roger Robb; Gordon Gray; Henry De Wolfe Smyth

Synopsis

At the height of McCarthyism, Oppenheimer is charged as a security risk. In government hearings he reviews his past Communist associations, which were well-known and mostly ended when he headed the Manhattan Project, but confesses that he lied about certain facts. Bethe, Rabi, and Fermi support him. Groves defends Oppenheimer's loyalty, but concedes that he would not be security cleared under 1954 standards. Teller concedes Oppy's loyalty, but considers him a security risk because he is not enthusiastic about the hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer's security clearance is withdrawn.

Keywords

Communism; Communist; disloyalty; fellow traveler; H-bomb; hydrogen bomb; loyalty; Manhattan Project; McCarthyism; Red Scare; security

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Includes lengthy marginal extracts from letters and transcripts concerning the case.

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Epilogue (1960) (Table of Contents: 26)

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Leo Szilard (quotation)

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Section title pages. Quote from Szilard.

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Yes, yes they're all afraid of me but I don't know why.

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Leo Szilard; Gertrud [Trude] Weiss Szilard; Hans Bethe

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Szilard is in the hospital with a self-designed radiation treatment, but annoys both Trude and the nurses by his behavior. He says that he will write down all the facts of what went on during the war, not for publication, just for God. Kidded that God already knows the facts, Szilard replies, "Maybe... but not this version."

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Hospital; radiation treatment

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Notes and References (Table of Contents: 29)

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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Eddy Newell (credited) (illustrations)

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Leo Szilard; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Albert Einstein; Kenneth D. Nichols; General Leslie R. Groves; Enrico Fermi; Hans Bethe; Leona Marshall; Kenneth T. Bainbridge

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Model sheet

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The Artists (Table of Contents: 30)

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Leo Szilard (Table of Contents: 31)

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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Eddy Newell (credited)

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Leo Szilard; Albert Einstein

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physicist; physics; Science; scientist

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Sketch and short biography of Szilard

J. Robert Oppenheimer (Table of Contents: 32)

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Jim Ottaviani (credited)

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biography

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Sketch and short biography of Oppenheimer

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Ground Zero, Trinity: July 17, 1945

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Trinity site after the blast

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