Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics

Table of contents

• Memoirs *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction i
• 1 - How Many Seconds in a Year? 1908-1913 3
• 2 - Learning about War, Revolution, and Peace 1914-1919 8
• 3 - The Other Side of the War Years 1914-1919 17
• 4 - Romanian Interlude 1919-1920 24
• 5 - My Name Is Kokó 1920-1925 31
• 6 - How to Become a Physicist the Hard Way 1926-1928 42
• 7 - Brave New World 1928-1929 53
• 8 - Journeyman Year in Physics 1929-1930 64
• 9 - The Pleasures of Small Successes 1930-1933 72
• 10 - The Future Becomes Obvious 1933 82
• 11 - Copenhagen 1933-1934 94
• 12 - The Joy of Being a Foreigner 1934-1935 109
• 13 - First Years in the United States 1935-1941 122
• 14 - Fission 1939-1941 138
• 15 - Academicians Go to Work 1941-1943 153
• 16 - Settling in at Los Alamos March 1943-November 1943 166
• 17 - On and off the Mesa November 1943-January 1945 184
• 18 - An End, a Beginning 1945 198
• 19 - Give It Back to the Indians 1945-1946 213
• 20 - Incomplete Answers 1946 228
• 21 - Among Friends from Home February 1946-June 1949 239
• 22 - The Reactor Safeguard Committee 1947-1949 263
• 23 - Twenty Years Too Soon June 1949-January 1950 273
• 24 - Our Doubts Have a Firm Foundation 1950 291
• 25 - Damn the Torpedoes November 1950-April 1951 309
• 26 - Pleasures in the Pacific, Perils at Princeton April 1951-September 1951 320
• 27 - The Campaign for a Second Weapons Laboratory November 1951July 1952 330
• 28 - The New Wheel Spins a Bit 19521954 343
• 29 - Other Nuclear Affairs 19491955 360
• 30 - The Oppenheimer Hearing April 12,1954May 6,1954 369
• 31 - Sequelae June 1954February 1955 385
• 32 - Three Friends August 1954August 1958 402
• 33 - Down to Earth 19551958 415
• 34 - The Directorship 19581960 436
• 35 - A Few Lessons in Political Affairs 19551960 453
• 36 - The Temperature of the Cold War Rises 19601965 461
• 37 - Educating Inventive Engineers 1961-1975 476
• 38 - Uphill 1964-1972 492
• 39 - Choices, Critical and Otherwise 1973-1979 514
• 40 - Strategic Defense 1980-1992 525
• 41 - Other Issues Public and Private 1980-1990 541
• 42 - Homecoming 1990-2000 551
• Epilogue 562
• In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer - Transcript of Hearing before Personnel Security Board, April 12,1954 through May 6, 1954 570
• Index 603

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