The Road from Los Alamos. Profound perspective and personal viewpoints on atomic weapons, nuclear power and science

About The Series -- Preface -- About The Author -- The Bomb: How Close Is The Danger? / Frederick Seitz -- The Bomb: The Hydrogen Bomb -- The Bomb: Brighter Than A Thousand Suns -- The Bomb: Ultimate Catastrophe? -- Arms Control: The Case For Ending Nuclear Tests -- Arms Control: Disarmament And Strategy -- Arms Control: Antiballistic-missile Systems / Richard L. Garwin -- Arms Control: Meaningless Superiority -- Arms Control: We Are Not Inferior To The Soviets -- Arms Control: The Five-year War Plan / Kurt Gottfried -- Debate: Elusive Security / Kurt Gottfriend And Malcolm Wallop -- Space-based Ballistic-missile Defense / Richard L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, And Henry W. Kendall -- The Technological Imperative -- Reducing The Risk Of Nuclear War / Robert S. Mcnamara -- Chop Down Nuclear Arsenals -- The Freeze: The Value Of A Freeze / Franklin A. Long -- The Freeze: Debate: Bethe Vs. Teller / Edward Teller -- The Freeze: After The Freeze Referendum / Franklin A. Long -- Advice And Dissent: Science And Morality / Donald Mcdonald -- Advice And Dissent: Back To Science Advisors / John Bardeen -- Nuclear Power: The Necessity Of Fission Power -- Nuclear Power: Debate: Nuclear Safety / Frank Von Rippel -- Nuclear Power: Chernobyl -- Five Physicists: J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Five Physicists: Freeman Dyson -- Five Physicists: Herman W. Hoerlin With Donald M. Kerr And Robert A. Jeffries -- Five Physicists: Paul P. Ewald With H.j. Juretschke, A.f. Moodie, And H.k. Wagenfeld -- Five Physicists: Richard P. Feynman -- Astrophysics: Energy Production In Stars -- Astrophysics: How A Supernova Explodes / Gerald Brown -- Acknowledgments -- Index Hans A. Bethe. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Focuses on the uses and misuses of nuclear energy in our society, with chapters devoted to arms control, Chernobyl, the cutting edge between science and government, and a debate with Edward Teller.