Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958. First American edition. Octavo in black DJ, 369 pages; 21 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, very gentle bumping and fraying to front board-top corner, extremely mild rubbing to other 3 corners, moderate soiling to board edges and fore-edges, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, sunned DJ spine, less than quarter-inch clipped to front DJ-top corner, two less than quarter-inch clippings to DJ spine head, less than quarter-inch clipped circle to DJ spine foot, very mild rubbing to DJ spine foot, faint soiling to DJ (mostly to rear DJ), else Very Good in Good DJ. Hardcover.

DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. Contents: A time of change (1918-1923) -- The beautiful years (1923-1932) -- Collision with politics (1932-1933) -- An unexpected discovery (1932-1939) -- The decay of confidence (1939) -- The strategy of prevention (1939-1942) -- The laboratory becomes a barrack (1942-1945) -- The rise of Oppenheimer (1939-1943) -- Fission of a man (1943) -- The pursuit of brains (1944-1945) -- Atomic scientist versus atomic bomb (1944-1945) -- For they know not what they do (1945) -- The stricken (1945) -- The scientists' crusade (1945-1946) -- The bitter years (1947-1955) -- "Joe I" and "super" (1949-1950) -- Dilemma of the conscience (1950-1951) -- In the sign of the "MANIAC" (1951-1955) -- The fall of Oppenheimer (1952-1954) -- At the bench of the accused (1954-1955) -- Epilogue: The last chance? Series: A Harvest book, HB 182. Nuclear energy -- History.