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Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. Presumed later printing. xiv, 369, [1] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Illustrated front cover. Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum, also known as Robert Baum-Jungk; 11 May 1913 - 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Jungk was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, known as Max Jungk, was born David Baum (1872, Miskovice - 1937, Prague). When Adolf Hitler came to power, Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him to move through various cities, such as Prague, Paris, and Zurich, during World War II. He continued journalism after the war. His book, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the German project had been purposely dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates (a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr), and led to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen. In 1986, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling indefatigably on behalf of peace, sane alternatives for the future and ecological awareness. Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, by Austrian Robert Jungk, is the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. The book studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the viewpoints of the atomic scientists. The book is largely based on personal interviews with persons who played leading parts in the construction and deployment of the bombs. In 1956 the book was published in German by Alfred Scherz Verlag with the title Heller als tausend Sonnen. James Cleugh translated it into English, and it was published in 1958 by Harcourt, Brace and Company. The book's title is based on the verse from the Bhagavad Gita that J. Robert Oppenheimer is said to have recalled at the Trinity nuclear test.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. Good condition with wear and markings.

Black Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good + Dust Jacket. First American Edition [stated]. 369 Pp. First American Edition Stated. Book Is Bright, Clean, No Names Or Marks, Faint Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Clean, No Fading, Price Clipped, Some Rubbing At Corners Mostly At Top Of Spine, A Few Very Short Closed Tears.

Zustand: good. First American Edition. 369, appendices, bibliography, index, boards somewhat scuffed, small stains on fore-edge.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. xiv, 369 pages. Occasional footnotes. Appendices. List of Sources. Index. DJ somewhat scuffed and soiled: small tears, piece missing at spine. A personal history of the atomic scientists, including Born, Heisenberg, and Meitner in Germany; Kapitza in Russia; the Joliot-Curies in France; Bohr in Denmark; Fermi in Italy; and Albert Einstein and Oppenheimer in America. Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum May 11, 1913 - July 14, 1994) was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Jungk was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father was David Baum (pseudonym: Max Jungk, 1872, Miskovice - 1937, Prague). When Adolf Hitler came to power, Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. He is also known as the inventor of the future workshop, which is a method for social innovation, participation by the concerned, and visionary future planning. In chapter six of his book The Big Machine, Jungk described CERN as the place to find the "first Planetarians, earth dwellers who no longer feel loyalty to a single nation, a single continent, but to common knowledge that they advance together." There is an international library in Salzburg called Robert-Jungk-Bibliothek für Zukunftsfragen. His book Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. In 1986, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling indefatigably on behalf of peace. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is an extremely able, engrossing account of the development of nuclear physics and the men who were most significant in the exploitation of the new discoveries. Beginning after 1918 when the three main European centers for research were in Copenhagen with Niels Bohr, in Cambridge with Rutherford and in Gottingen with Born, Franck and Hilbert, this reviews scientific advances and political setbacks up to the Teller-Oppenheimer controversy, investigating the spiritual and intellectual problems raised by modern physics and the climate within which the fraternity of scientists debated and finally agreed to reveal the consequence of nuclear fission. A book of eminent importance. First American Edition. Presumed first printing.