No single figure embodies Cold War science more than the renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although other scient
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In "The Atomic Alchemist: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear Age," we embark on a captivating
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Gray returns nuclear weapons to the center stage of international politics, arguing that the risk they pose is becoming
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In today’s information age, the coexistence of nuclear weapons with advanced conventional weapons and information-based
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We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy
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Just as we generally pay scant attention to the potential dangers of nuclear power and nuclear war, until quite recently
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s missio
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