Rather than sleep, Tibbets crawled through the thirty-foot tunnel to chat with the waist crew, wondering if they knew what they were carrying. A chemist's nightmare, the tail gunner, Robert Caron, gue...
Lonnie Athens demonstrates to the contrary that violent people come to their violence by the same universal processes of soliloquy and dramatic self-change that carry the rest of us to conformity, pac...
It is impossible to describe the utter despair of all classes of Jews in Germany. 718 The thoroughness with which they are being hounded out and stopped short in their careers is appalling. Unless hel...
In 2008, some of the scientists who modeled the original 1983 nuclear winter scenario investigated the likely result of a theoretical regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan, a war they postul...
Chaim Weizmann gives some measure of that totality in the harsher world of the Russian Pale when he writes that the acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the...
But while Poland had welcomed them, Russia despised them. Its economy was too primitive to need their commercial skills and it abhorred their religion. To Catherine the Great her one million new subje...
Bacher asked for a receipt from the Army for the material it would soon explode. Los Alamos was officially an extension of the University of California working for the Army under contract and Bacher w...
The process of writing is always a healing process because the function of creation is always, always, the alleviation of pain—the writer’s, first of all, and then the pain of those who read what she...
They had discovered the reason no elements beyond uranium exist naturally in the world: the two forces working against each other in the nucleus eventually cancel each other out. They pictured the ura...
The practice of science was not itself a science; it was an art, to be passed from master to apprentice as the art of painting is passed or as the skills and traditions of the law or of medicine are p...
The character damage of a trauma survivor, he concludes, can be understood as a reflection both of his or her radical aloneness and of the continued presence of the perpetrator in the victim’s inner l...
Nations existed in a condition of international anarchy. No hierarchical authority defined their relations with one another. They negotiated voluntarily as self-interest moved them and took what they...
It is wrong, he told his colleagues repeatedly, to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is—which is the territory classical physics had claimed for itself. Physics concerns what we...
In ten days and 1,600 sorties the Twentieth Air Force burned out 32 square miles of the centers of Japan’s four largest cities and killed at least 150,000 people and almost certainly tens of thousands...
He had dreamed that atomic energy might substitute exploration for war, carrying men away from the narrow earth into the cosmos. He knew now that long before it propelled any such exodus it would incr...
I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merel...
He even found time on the day of the occupation to worry about the large gold Nobel Prize medals that Max von Laue and James Franck had given him for safekeeping.1290 Exporting gold from Germany was a...
From personal experience as well as professional study, Athens strongly rejects linking community malignancy with race. Violentization has nothing to do with race—or with poverty, for that matter.)
Preventing and limiting violence means protecting children from brutalization in a country where physically punishing children continues to be acceptable behavior.