Nuclear hostages

by O'Keefe, Bernard J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Nuclear hostages / Bernard J. O'Keefe.

Summary

There is probably no person alive today more intimately connected with the development of atomic weapons than Bernard J. O'Keefe. As a young ensign in World War II, he worked under J. Robert Oppenheimer on arming devices for the first bombs. After the war it was his mission, as a principal founder of a high-technology company specializing in instrumentation, to measure the effects of most major tests, including the devastating hydrogen bomb test at Bikini in 1954 and the only "tactical" atomic bomb test at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada. <p>O'Keefe's accounts of these experiences are both dramatic and inspiring and give particular authority to his view that the concept of a limited atomic war is nonsense and that any atomic war would be an unacceptable disaster. Though the Russian government may be paranoid and is not answerable to either domestic or international opinion, it is not suicidal, and we must find some accommodation with the Soviets. With a lifetime of experience in science and business behind him, Mr. O'Keefe proposes a way to go about the task.</p><p>

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1983.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:1983.

Notes

Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:251 pages ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0395340721, 9780395340721
oclc:ocm09195564
LC Classification:U264
Dewey Decimal:355.8/25119

The beginnings -- Nuclear fission -- Los Alamos -- Tinian -- Testing -- Bravo -- The test ban treaty -- The nuclear hostages.

Subjects

Armes nucléaires -- Essais Armes nucléaires -- Histoire Désarmement nucléaire History Nuclear disarmament Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons -- History Nuclear weapons -- Testing O'Keefe, Bernard J.