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Edward Teller

The Real Dr. Strangelove

Peter Goodchild

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Publication Date: 10/29/2004

512 pages

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List of Illustrations
Glossary of Characters
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. War, Revolution, Peace and Maths
3. In the Company of Gods
4. Twilight of a Golden Age
5. America the Beautiful
6. The Hungarian Conspiracy Skirmishes
7. Maverick on the Mesa
8. The Little Toe of the Ghost
9. The Legacy of Hiroshima
10. Wilderness Years
11. The Taking of Washington
12. Unholy Alliances
13. A ‘Simple, Great and Stupid’ Mistake
14. Technically So Sweet
15. Mike
16. ‘Soled’ to the Californians
17. Bravo
18. The Hearing
19. Aftermath
20. ‘Almost like Ivory Soap’
21. A Matter of Detection
22. Plowshare
23. Confounding Camelot
24. Struggling Uphill
25. Bringing up the Props
26. Excalibur
27. Reykjavik
28. Brilliant Pebbles
Epilogue
Appendix 1: The New Physics: the Path that Led to Quantum Mechanics
Appendix 2: Basic Information on the History of Fission
Appendix 3: The Sketch for the ‘Super’ that Evolved During the Berkeley Conference, Summer 1942
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index

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