The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age - Couverture rigide

Morgan, Kyle Z.; Peterson, Ken M.

 
9780806131221: The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0806131225 ISBN 13 : 9780806131221
Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1999

Synopsis

Karl Z. Morgan was a physicist at the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was director of health physics from the late 1940s until his retirement in 1972. He collaborated with leading trial lawyer Ken M. Peterson to write this extraordinary memoir about the dawn of the nuclear age and the moral dilemmas associated with nuclear energy.

A deeply humane and religious scientist, Morgan regards his own role, in meeting the challenges presented by the "angry genie" of nuclear energy, with the same unblinking eye he focuses on government, the military, and the nuclear industry. He tells harrowing tales of radiation accidents and near-disasters, and shows the actual and potential consequences of the clumsiness, recklessness, and carelessness of fallible human beings.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ken M. Peterson, an attorney in Wichita, Kansas, is recognized by his peers as one of the best trial lawyers in America.

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Éditeur
University of Oklahoma Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0806131225
ISBN 13 
9780806131221
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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