viii, 312 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Note
Includes index.
Contents
1. A Michigan boyhood -- 2. California here we come -- 3. A free education -- 4. Graduate school wonderland -- 5. Apprentice to a master chemist -- 6. The bomb splits -- 7. Plutonium : a secret discovery -- 8. The Manhattan Project -- 9. Scaling up a billion times -- 10. Reflections on the bomb -- 11. Rearranging the table of elements -- 12. Back to the rad lab -- 13. The H-bomb and Oppenheimer -- 14. Big prizes : children, elements, and a Nobel -- 15. A Chancellor's three challenges -- 16. Kennedy's call : a move to Washington -- 17. LBJ : a president and a friend -- 18. Troubles with Nixon and a look inside the AEC -- 19. Nuclear power : its past and future -- 20. A professor again.