3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Hungarian-American physicist — 'Father of the Hydrogen Bomb' — Hoover Institution fellow — who designed the Teller-Ulam thermonuclear bomb, advocated for SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative), and was the most controversial major physicist in American history for his role in Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing.
American theoretical physicist and scientific director of the Manhattan Project — who led the team that built the first atomic bomb — later stripped of his security clearance in 1954 during the McCarthy era — whose life embodies the moral complexity of scientific power.
American author — author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Pulitzer Prize, 1987) — the definitive history of the Manhattan Project — and Dark Sun (on the hydrogen bomb) — the most important science-policy historian in America.