By Jeremy Bernstein
Nuclear guns is a historical past of nuclear guns. From their preliminary theoretical improvement at the beginning of the 20th century to the new exams in North Korea, the writer seeks to, at each one aspect within the narrative, describe the elemental technological know-how of nuclear weaponry. even as, he deals debts and anecdotes of the personalities concerned, a lot of whom he has identified firsthand. Dr. Bernstein writes in accordance with what he sees as a frequent false impression in the course of the media of the elemental workings and capability influence of nuclear weaponry.
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Some things didn't quite fit, but they were so sure of their basic premise that they brushed the objections under the rug. The last paper the three of them published together was in 1938. Then the roof fell in on Meitner. Until 1938, she simply chose to ignore the warning signals that were all around her. Hahn had been asked to remove the nonAryans from his laboratory and, as he was Meitner's nominal director, he asked her to leave, which she refused to do. She had received a feeler from Swarthmore that she did not explore because, as an undergraduate institution, it did not offer the proper laboratory facilities.
He had only recently learned of her visa problems. The borders had been sealed with explicit instructions to keep scientists from escaping. Coster chose an obscure border crossing where he was able to exert some influence on the border guards. Meitner spent the night before she left at Hahn's house and then departed with ten marks in her purse and a diamond ring that Hahn had inherited from his mother. Meitner was to sell it if her financial situation became desperate. I have never been able to learn whether or not she sold the ring.
I MET ENRICO FERMI ONLY ONCE. IT WAS THE SPRING OF 1954, AND he had come to Harvard to give a series of so-called Loeb Lectures. I was a graduate student finishing my thesis. Roy Glauber, then a very young assistant professor - he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2005 - had organized a kind of seminar for advanced graduate students and postdoctorals in theoretical physics. It was an informal sort of thing in which you could try out ideas and learn from one another. Somehow he persuaded Fermi to give a talk to us.