Adams susan editor (19 Ergebnisse)

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 254 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. Notes. Tabular Data. Cover has some wear and soiling. Ruth Salzman Adams (1921-2005) was an arms-control activist and a former longtime editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who devoted most of her life to ensuring that a broad array of scientists and scholars focused on solutions for world peace. Ruth Adams became assistant editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1953 and worked closely with the editor, Eugene Rabinowitch. Adams was an early participant in the Pugwash peace movement, which brought together American and Soviet scientists concerned about the nuclear threat. She was the only woman present in 1957 at the first Pugwash conference in Nova Scotia, sponsored by such eminent scientists as Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling. In the later decades of the Cold War she "frequently had a facilitating role in maintaining the flow of policy-oriented communication and understanding on nuclear issues between senior Western and Soviet scientists". Ruth Adams was a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, her edited and co-edited books include works on human migrations, the anti-ballistic missile, and contemporary China. "Collection of papers presented at a series of symposia on the medical consequences of nuclear weapons and nuclear war."--Introduction. Among the participants were Robert Jay Lifton, John Kenneth Galbraith, Herbert Scoville, Kosta Tsipis, Carson Mark, and Joseph Rotblat. Among the topics address are Arms Race, Nuclear Weapons, Radioactive Fallout, Atomic Bomb, Survivors, Burn Casualties, Infection, and Communicable Diseases. Robert Jay Lifton (Drawings) (illustrator).…

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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. Presumed first edition/first printing. xv, 99 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Sticker residue and pencil erasure residue on t-p. The event described are based on the recollections of the author, supplemented and validated by official personnel records. At the time this was written, the survivors were in their eighties. This recounts combat missions during WWII. The author joined the Aviation Cadet program after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He completed pilot training in early 1943 and was a 21 year-old newly minted scond lieutenant assigned to learn how to fly and operate the P-40 weapons system in a combat environment. In April of that year he joing the 57th Fighter Group and served in that distinquished unit until May, 1945. In late 1943 he transitioned to the P047 Thunderbolt which had a dynamic and positive effect on Allied air-to ground combat operations in Sicily and Italy. Garst, Steven C. (Cover Art), and Fair, L. Susan ( (illustrator).…

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Hardcover. First Edition. Small Octavo, xv, 245 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with white lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$19.95." Light shelf wear and soiling. Small staining on top and bottom edges of text block. Signed flat by Atwood on title page. Shelved in Fiction Anthology. 1406189. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

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