Tellers War

Author : William J. Broad
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671867386
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teller's War written by William J. Broad and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broad examines the connection between science and government in this account of Edward Teller's campaign to found and direct the Strategic Defense Initiative, piercing the myth of Star Wars, and exposing Teller's pursuit of a plan that could have opened the possibility of nuclear warfare in space.

Author : William J. Broad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teller's War written by William J. Broad and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals how the father of the H-bomb sold the nation the pipe dream called Star Wars. Broad shows how Teller disregarded evidence, ignored colleagues, and continued to promote the Star Wars program. Ultimately, more than $25 billion was misspent on this system, still more a dream than reality. Photographs and line drawings.

Author : United Spanish War Veterans. Department of New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the United Spanish War Veterans, Department of New York written by United Spanish War Veterans. Department of New York and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Spanish War Veterans. Dept. of New York
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the United Spanish War Veterans, Department of New York, for the Years ... written by United Spanish War Veterans. Dept. of New York and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory of members, constitution and by-laws of the Society of American military engineers. 1935" inserted in v. 27.

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526184370
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 written by Owen Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951. Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in an exciting and intellectually stimulating way. Essential reading for all social historians and all h. . . .

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Total Pages : 1240 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Teller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0786751703
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Edward Teller and published by . This book was released on 2009-09-09 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines--passionate and humorous, devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully as he does here. We learn his true position on everything from the bombing of Japan to the pursuit of weapons research in the post-war years. In clear and compelling prose, Teller chronicles the people and events that shaped him as a scientist, beginning with his early love of music and math, and continuing with his study of quantum physics under Werner Heisenberg. He also describes his relationships with some of the century's greatest minds--Einstein, Bohr, Fermi, Szilard, von Neumann--and offers an honest assessment of the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, the founding of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and his complicated relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer.Rich and humanizing, this candid memoir describes the events that led Edward Teller to be honored or abhorred, and provides a fascinating perspective on the ability of a single individual to affect the course of history.

Author : Walter Friedman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691159114
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune Tellers written by Walter Friedman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping history of the pioneers who sought to use science to predict financial markets The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons. They competed to sell their distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses, and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Walter Friedman paints vivid portraits of entrepreneurs who shared a belief that the rational world of numbers and reason could tame--or at least foresee--the irrational gyrations of the market. Despite their failures, this first generation of economic forecasters helped to make the prediction of economic trends a central economic activity, and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is science and what is merely guesswork in forecasting? What motivates people to buy forecasts? Does the act of forecasting set in motion unforeseen events that can counteract the forecast made? Masterful and compelling, Fortune Tellers highlights the risk and uncertainty that are inherent to capitalism itself.