Hans in war and peace

Physics Today

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 52-57

  Garwin, Richard L ^a   Gottfried, Kurt ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); DETONATION; EXPLOSIVES; HAZARDS; LENSES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

BRUTE-FORCE COMPUTATION; EXPLOSIVE LENSES; HIGH-TECH INTERCEPT TECHNIQUES; NUCLEAR BOMBS;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 25844432203     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2138421     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. H. A. Bethe, Selected Works of Hans A. Bethe, World Scientific, River Edge, NJ (1997), p. 296.
2. See H. A. Bethe, Phys. Rev. 66, 163 (1944), submitted in January 1942.
3. R. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, New York (1986), p. 415.
4. Ref. 3, p. 374.
5. Our discussion of the hydrogen bomb draws primarily from S. S. Schweber, In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist, Princeton U. Press, Princeton, NJ (2000);
6. R. Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Simon & Schuster, New York (1995); and from the reflections of one of us (Garwin), who participated in the project starting in the summer of 1950.
7. Ref. 5, Schweber, p. 166.
8. H. A. Bethe, Los Alamos Sci., Fall 1982, p. 43.
9. This declassified version of a 1954 report, Comments on the History of the H-Bomb, is also available at http://www.radiochemistry.org/history/abomb/ 05_bethe.pdf.
10. H. A. Bethe, Sci. Am., April 1950, p. 18;
11. see also ref. 5, Schweber, p. 160.
12. Ref. 7, p. 53.
13. Ref. 5, Schweber, p. 168.
14. For a detailed account of the test-ban effort, see ref. 5, Schweber, p. 173.
15. H. A. Bethe, Atlantic Monthly, August 1960, p. 43.
16. R. L. Garwin, H. A. Bethe, Sci. Am., March 1968, p. 21.
17. Space-Based Missile Defense: A Report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, UCS, Cambridge, MA (March 1984).
18. H. A. Bethe, R. L. Garwin, K. Gottfried, H. W. Kendall, Sci. Am., October 1984, p. 39.
19. For a more elaborate technical analysis, see H. A. Bethe, J. Boutwell, R. L. Garwin, Daedalus 114, 53 (1985)
20. and H. Bethe, R. Garwin, Daedalus 114, 331 (1985); for the political context
21. see R. S. McNamara, H. A. Bethe, Atlantic Monthly, July 1985, p. 43.
22. H. A. Bethe, R. L. Garwin, K. Gottfried, H. W. Kendall, C. Sagan, V. F. Weisskopf, Commentary, March 1985, p. 6.
23. H. A. Bethe, Bull. At. Sci., March 1989, p. 11;
24. H. A. Bethe, K. Gottfried, R. S. McNamara, New York Review of Books, 27 June 1991, p. 48.
25. Ref 5, Schweber, p. 171;
26. the full text is available in Public Interest Report, Journal of the Federation of American Scientists 48, September-October 1995; also available at http://www.pugwash.org/about/bethe.htm.