About the Series ............................................. viii
Preface ........................................................ ix
About the Author ............................................ xviii
THE BOMB
How Close Is the Danger? with Frederick Seitz ................... 3
The Hydrogen Bomb .............................................. 12
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns .................................. 23
Ultimate Catastrophe? .......................................... 30
ARMS CONTROL
The Case for Ending Nuclear Tests .............................. 37
Disarmament and Strategy ....................................... 54
Antiballistic-Missile Systems with Richard L. Garwin ........... 71
Meaningless Superiority ........................................ 87
We Are Not Inferior to the Soviets ............................. 90
The Five-Year War Plan with Kurt Gottfried ..................... 99
Debate: Elusive Security with Kurt Gottfried, response by
Malcolm Wallop ............................................. 102
Space-Based Ballistic-Missile Defense with Richard
L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, and Henry W. Kendall ............ 113
The Technological Imperative .................................. 132
Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War with Robert S. McNamara ...... 138
Chop Down Nuclear Arsenals .................................... 151
THE FREEZE
The Value of a Freeze with Franklin A. Long ................... 161
Debate: Bethe vs. Teller response by Edward Teller ............ 164
After the Freeze Referendum with Franklin A. Long ............. 169
ADVICE AND DISSENT
Science and Morality with Donald McDonald ..................... 175
Back to Science Advisors with John Bardeen .................... 183
NUCLEAR POWER
The Necessity of Fission Power ................................ 187
Debate: Nuclear Safety response by Frank von Hippel ........... 206
Chernobyl ..................................................... 214
FIVE PHYSICISTS
J. Robert Oppenheimer ......................................... 221
Freeman Dyson ................................................. 231
Herman W. Hoerlin with Donald M. Kerr and Robert
A. Jeffries ................................................ 234
Puul P. Ewald with H.J. Juretschke, A.F. Moodie, and
H.K. Wagenfeld ............................................. 236
Richard P. Feynman ............................................ 239
ASTROPHYSICS
Energy Production in Stars .................................... 245
How a Supernova Explodes with Gerald Brown .................... 265
Acknowledgments ............................................... 279
Index ......................................................... 283
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