Part I | Urgent Appeals, 1939-1952: The Advent of Nuclear Weapons | |
Chapter 1 | "A Closely Knit Group of People" The Decision to Build the Atomic Bomb | 3 |
Chapter 2 | "No Acceptable Alternative" The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb | 17 |
Chapter 3 | "Necessarily an Evil Thing" The Debate over the H-Bomb | 34 |
Chapter 4 | "A Point of No Return" The Opportunity for a Nuclear "Standstill" | 49 |
Part II | Fragile Hopes, 1953-1960: The Impetus toward Arms Control | |
Chapter 5 | "Racing toward Catastrophe" Atoms for Peace and War | 69 |
Chapter 6 | "An Age of Danger" From the Killian Report to Sputnik | 82 |
Chapter 7 | "A Vested Interest in This Field" The President's Science Advisory Committee and the Test Ban | 101 |
Part III | Guarded Futures, 1961-1988: The Perils and Promises of New Technology | |
Chapter 8 | "Where a Fresh Start Is Badly Needed" Politics and Science in the Kennedy Administration | 127 |
Chapter 9 | "A Nation Cannot Be Built with Gadgets" Johnson, Hornig, and the Vietnam War | 146 |
Chapter 10 | "No Longer as Adviser but as Citizen" The Crisis of Science Advising under Nixon and Ford | 165 |
Chapter 11 | "We Want You to Know of Our Judgment" Science and Conflict in the Carter Administration | 184 |
Chapter 12 | "The President Doesn't Care about Wavelengths" The Reagan Revolution and the Origins of SDI | 199 |
| Conclusion: "Speaking the Truth to Power" The Future of Presidential Science Advising | 217 |
| Appendixes | |
A. | Einstein-Szilard Letter to President Roosevelt (proposal to build an atomic bomb), August 2, 1939 | 229 |
B. | Fermi-Rabi Letter to the AEC: "An Opinion on the Development of the 'Super'" (written to oppose the hydrogen bomb), October 30, 1949 | 231 |
C. | The Golden Report: "Mobilization of Science for War" (report on the president's science adviser), December 18, 1950 | 233 |
D. | The Disarmament Panel's Proposal for a Nuclear "Standstill": "The Timing of the Thermonuclear Test" (excerpts), Fall 1952 | 235 |
E. | The Teapot Report on ICBMs: "Recommendations of the Committee on Strategic Missiles," February 10, 1954 | 239 |
F. | Killian's Charter for PSAC, December 1957 | 241 |
G. | Ruina-Gell-Mann Paper: "Ballistic Missile Defence and the Arms Race" (argument against the ABM), December 1965 | 243 |
H. | Rathjens-Ruina Memorandum to Henry Kissinger: "A Moratorium on the Testing of Multiple Warheads" (proposal for a MIRV ban), June 2, 1969 | 247 |
I. | Garwin Letter to President Carter (defense of a comprehensive test ban), August 15, 1978 | 250 |
J. | The "Insert": President Reagan's Announcement of SDI, March 23, 1983 | 253 |
K. | Members of SAC/ODM and PSAC, 1951-73 | 256 |
| Notes | 263 |
| Bibliography | 341 |
| Index | 351 |