Johnson Teller (5 results)

Hardcover. viii, [1], 345 p.; 22 cm. Includes reports from discussions following the addresses. Good lightly spotted orig. gray cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Shelf wear. Foxing to edges. xiv, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. "Edward Teller was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the production of the first atomic bomb and the worldâs first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb. He is also known for his extraordinary contributions to nuclear and molecular physics, surface physics and spectroscopy. Teller moved to America in 1935 accepting the position of professor of physics at the George Washington University. His work here included predicting the Jahn-Teller Effect which distorts molecules in certain situations. He also contributed to surface physics and chemistry with the Brunauerâ"Emmettâ"Teller adsorption isotherm equation. Teller became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1941 and became a part of the Manhattan Project during World War II, working on the first atomic bomb with J. Robert Oppenheimer. Teller was also interested creating a fusion weapon (hydrogen bomb) and pressed as hard as he could for its development. In 1946, Teller left Los Alamos to work at the University of Chicago, returning in 1950 when work on developing a hydrogen bomb was finally approved. Teller worked on the hydrogen bomb project, helping devise the Teller-Ulam two stage thermonuclear bomb design. The H-bomb was successfully tested in the Pacific in 1952. In 1952 Teller accepted the position of professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, a position he kept until 1960.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine-. 320 pages with numerous Tables and Figures. "The possibility of using nuclear explosives for engineering and scientific purposes generates problems not all of which are in the provinces of scientists and engineers. The first major problem is the emotional. The second is political." Chapters on: Nuclear Explosion; Aspects of Energy Transfer; Nuclear Radiation; Plowshare Tests and Phenomenology of Nuclear Explosions; Industrial Uses of Nuclear Explosive: Earth Moving; Other Industrial Uses of Nuclear Explosives and Scientific Applications of Nuclear Explosions." FINE- HARDCOVER, ex-library from Oak Ridge Library, Tennessee. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library Withdrawn.

Condition: VG. 1955. Article at pp. 783-787 in single complete issue of The Physical Revew. May 1, 1955 vol 98, no. 3. Included in a complete issue of this journal with many other articles. 4to., original printed wraps. "Oppenheim, A" stamped on front. VG+).

First edition, first printing, signed by the authors and inscribed by Johnson, "To Bill Bascom - With thanks and appreciation for your long-standing interest in and support of the Plowshare Program. Jerry Johnson, Washington D.C., August 3, 1968." This is the first technical monograph on the peaceful applications of nuclear explosions as developed by Project Plowshare. This work was a collaborative effort between several distinguished physicists led by Edward Teller (1908-2003), the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Gerald W. Johnson (1917-2005) served as director of Project Plowshare; this was the United States's attempt to develop techniques using nuclear energy for industry and construction between 1957-77. Wilson K. Talley (1935-2017) was a nuclear engineer who served as a science advisor to the Department of Defense and Presidents Ford and Reagan. Gary H. Higgins (1927-2002) was a radiochemist who served as Division Leader of Plowshare. The recipient of this copy was the engineer Willard Bascom (1916-2000). Bascom was the director of Project Mohole, an attempt between 1961-66 to drill through the Earth's crust to obtain samples of the Mohorovi i discontinuity. Bascom served as President of the Plowshare Advisory Committee and conducted research on wave behaviour in the detonation of nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. Although supportive of the project, he was opposed to Project Chariot, the proposition to construct an artificial harbour at Cape Thompson in Alaska (Ogle, p. 170). Project Chariot was championed by Teller, but never came to fruition due to concerns about the effect on the local environment and community. The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives offers a guide to the technical activities of the programme, focussing predominantly on excavation and mining but also on other engineering and scientific potentialities such as geophysical research and petroleum production. The project had a particular application to canals; due to the Suez Crisis of 1956, the potential of constructing an alternative canal through friendly territory was discussed by scientists at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, California on the instruction of President Eisenhower. Although the alternative canal was never built, the proposition of using nuclear energy for peaceful construction purposes raised at the meeting led to the formation of Project Plowshare. Along with offering technical details, this work refers to the "emotional problem" of the project: "The first use of nuclear explosives, in war, displayed their destructive potential, and this characteristic still captures the imagination. That there may be resistance to their use for constructive purposes is consequently not surprising" (p. v). The reframing of nuclear weapons was a key concern for the US Government; in his farewell address of 1961, President Eisenhower expressed his hope that "American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well", and in 1987 President Reagan famously asked the United Nations General Assembly "cannot swords be turned to plowshares?" William E. Ogle, An Account of the Return to Nuclear Weapons Testing by the United States After the Test Moratorium 1958-1961, 1985. Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine and covers lettered in green and black. With dust jacket. Numerous photographs, diagrams, and charts within text. Spine ends slightly bruised, cloth extremities and edges foxed, faint browning to endpapers, contents clean; jacket foxed, extremities nicked, spine panel a little faded, unclipped: a very good copy in very good jacket.