Pandora's Keepers (69 page)

62
. Transcript,
Firing Line
, Southern Educational Communications Association, June 15, 1982, p. 7.

63
. Quoted in Douglas C. Waller,
Congress and the Nuclear Freeze
(University of Massachusetts Press, 1987), p. 191.

64
. Quoted in “Our Times with Bill Movers,” CBS TV, June 27, 1983.

65
. Quoted in Rigden,
Rabi
, p. 229.

66
. Ibid., pp. 209–210.

67
. Quoted in Charles Claffey, “A Father of the A-Bomb Looks Back in Torment,”
Boston Globe
, April 15, 1983, p. 1; and I. I. Rabi, “How Well We Meant.”

68
. Author’s interview with Edward Teller, Stanford, Calif., July 27, 1998.

69
. Broad,
Teller’s War
, pp. 270–271.

70
. Quoted in Gary Stix, “Profile: Infamy and Honor at the Atomic Café,”
Scientific American
, October 1999, p. 44.

71
. Teller with Shoolery,
Memoirs
, p. 396.

72
. Ibid., p. 22 n.

73
. Quoted in Blumberg and Panos,
Edward Teller
, p. 2.

74
. Quoted in Lee Edson, “Scientific Man For All Seasons,”
New York Times Magazine
, March 10, 1968, p. 124.

75
. Dyson,
Disturbing the Universe
, p. 47.

76
. See Testimony before House Subcommittee on Arms Control, International Security, and Science, May 13, 1985; and Notes of Remarks at Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 13, 1983, BPP.

77
. Quoted in Blumberg and Panos,
Edward Teller
, p. 198.

78
. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, February 28, 1984, in ibid., p. 264.

79
. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, May 23, 1985, in ibid., pp. 265–266.

80
. Hans Bethe to Edward Teller, June 20, 1985, BPP.

81
. Edward Teller to Hans Bethe, July 8, 1985; and Hans Bethe to Edward Teller, August 5, 1985, in ibid.

82
. Author’s interview with Louis Rosen, Los Alamos, N.Mex., July 16, 1997.

83
. Author’s interview with Herbert York, La Jolla, Calif., March 12, 2001.

84
. Quoted in Palevsky,
Atomic Fragments
, p. 158.

85
. Handwritten Notes, “28 Nov 72,” HABP, CAKL, CU.

86
. “Talk to Members of Congress,” July 16, 1985, BPP.

87
. Quoted in
Chronicle of Higher Education
, January 31, 1997, p. A14.

88
. Hans Bethe,
FAS Public Interest Report
, September–October 1995.

89
. Quotes are in John W. Finney, “Bethe Receives Atom Award,”
NYT
, December 2, 1961; and Edson, “Scientific Man for All Seasons,” p. 125.

90
. Quoted in Judith Horstman, “Hans Bethe: A Reluctant Warrior,”
Ithaca Journal
, December 18, 1981, p. 5.

Epilogue: The Atomic Scientists and Today

1
. James M. Clash, “Ground Zero,”
American Heritage
, April 1998, pp. 65–66.

2
. Patricia Leigh Brown, “Preserving the Birthplaces of the Atom Bomb,”
NYT
, April 7, 2001, p. A10.

3
. Rabi,
My Life and Times as a Physicist
, p. 3.

4
. J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Atomic Physics in Civilization,”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Papers, Box 29, JRL, UC.

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Philip Abelson. Washington, D.C. March 23, 1999.

Harold and Beverly Agnew. Solana Beach, Calif. March 13, 2001.

Robert Bacher. Santa Barbara, Calif. July 29, 1998.

Hans Bethe. Ithaca, N. Y. June 6, 1997.

Rose Bethe. Ithaca, N. Y. June 8, 1997.

Robert Christy. Pasadena, Calif. July 29, 1998.

Jean Critchfield. Los Alamos, N.Mex. July 1997.

Arthur and Peggy Hemmendinger. Santa Fe, N.Mex. July 22, 1997.

Donald and Lily Hornig. Cambridge, Mass. May 14, 1998.

Jerome and Isabella Karle. Washington, D.C. December 10, 1998.

Ralph Lapp. Alexandria, Va. March 12, 1999.

Kathleen Manley. Los Alamos, N.Mex. July 21, 1997.

Kay Mark. Los Alamos, N.Mex. July 19, 1997.

Philip Morrison. Cambridge, Mass. May 18, 1998.

Louis Rosen. Los Alamos, N.Mex. July 16, 1997.

Raemer Schreiber. Los Alamos, N.Mex. July 17, 1997.

Edward Teller. Stanford, Calif. July 27, 1998.

Françoise Ulam. Santa Fe, N.Mex. July 1997.

Victor Weisskopf. Newton, Mass. May 17, 1998.

Jane Wilson. Ithaca, N. Y. June 8, 1997.

Herbert York. La Jolla, Calif. March 12, 2001.

Oral Histories

Luis Alvarez. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Carl Anderson. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.

Hans Bethe. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Rose Bethe. Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University.

Norris Bradbury. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Gregory Breit. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Betty Compton. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Paul Ewald. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Richard Feynman. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Darol Froman. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Maurice Goldhaber. American Institute of Phyics, College Park, Md.

Carson Mark. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Edwin McMillan. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Philip Morrison. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Lothar Nordheim. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Frank Oppenheimer. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Robert Oppenheimer. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Abraham Pais. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Wolfgang Panofsky. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Rudolf Peierls. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Norman Ramsey. Columbia University, New York, N.Y.

Leon Rosenfeld. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Emilio Segrè. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Robert Serber. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Herbert Smith. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

John Wheeler. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Robert Wilson. American Institute of Physics, College Park, Md.

Herbert York. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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