Peter Kuran (13 results)

Paper wrap. Condition: Near fine. First edition. Softcover paper (black) wrap. Oblong 4to. 142 pp. Heavily illustrated throughout with b/w and full colour plate photographs and diagrams. Slight sunning to head and fore edge, and some slight shelfwear to the covers, but otherwise the book is clean, unmarked and square with a strong binding.

Condition: good. Signs of wear and consistent use.

Condition: Like New. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Extremely fine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Condition: very_good. Supports Goodwill of Silicon Valley job training programs. The cover and pages are in very good condition! The cover and any other included accessories are also in very good condition showing some minor use. The spine is straight, there are no rips tears or creases on the cover or the pages.

Condition: Very Good. Oblong 8vo pp. 142, "How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb is a visually compelling documentation combining awe-inspiring photography and fascinating technical detail about the stories and techniques behind the photography of the bomb. Author Peter Kuran's engrossing and powerful arrangement of these complex photographic techniques along with the astonishing photographs themselves.". book.

Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket. Book is very good with clean, unmarked pages. Binding and boards in excellent condition.

Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

paperback. Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. The Turks. [6 volumes set]., publishing consultant: Prof. Dr. Halil Inalcik; editorial board: Prof. Dr.Yusuf Halaçoglu, Prof. Dr. Sükrü Haluk Akalin, Prof. Dr. Süleyman Aliyarli, Prof. Dr. Muhammed Aydogduyev, Prof. Dr. Tuncer Baykara, Prof. Dr. Ali Birinci, Prof. Dr. Tinçtikbek Çorotegin, Prof. Dr. Géza Dávid, Prof. Dr. Feridun Emecen, Prof. Dr. Peter B. Golden, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Isen, Prof. Dr. Norman Itzkowitz, Prof. Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kafali, Prof. Dr. Kemal Karpat, Prof. Dr. Ercüment Kuran, Prof. Dr. Serif Mardin, Prof. Dr. Erdogan Merçil, Prof. Dr. Rhoads Murphey, Prof. Dr. Yuzo Nagata, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yasar Ocak, Prof. Dr. Ilber Ortayli, Prof. Dr. Victor Ostapchuk, Prof. Dr. Sema Barutçu Özönder, Prof. Dr. Denis Sinor, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Tabakoglu, Prof. Dr. Dmitri Vasiliev, Prof. Dr. Bahaeddin Yediyildiz; Yeni Türkiye yayinlari, Ank., 2002. Original bdg. Hardcover. Color and b/w ills. Mint state. 6000 p. 4to. (28 x 21 cm).

Blu-ray Disc. Condition: New [in original shrinkwrap]. Presumed First Issuance thus. This disc contains a one-hour version for general audiences and a 90 minute version for mature audiences. This was an International uranium Film Festival Official Selection 2023! The music was by William T. Stromberg. Oppenheimer was known as the father of the Atomic Bomb and Edward Teller was know as the father of the Hydrogen Bomb. Now meet Sam Cohen, father of the Neutron Bomb--one of the most-hated nuclear weapons ever invented. Highlighting nuclear and radioactive issues, "Neutron Bomb" demonstrates how even the most heinous concept for a nuclear weapon could become an international crisis that gripped the world and reverberates to this very day. Battlefield nukes and NATO--the danger of the Neutron Bomb still exists, and urgently demands attention worldwide. "Neutron Bomb: s the 6th documentary by award-winning filmmaker Peter Kuran, whose 25+ year nuclear documentary career began with the award-winning "Trinity and Beyond--The Atomic Bomb Movie". Peter Kuran is a film director, visual effects artist, and producer. Kuran got his start in the film industry in 1976 working on George Lucas's landmark film Star Wars. In 1982 Kuran started his own company, Visual Concept Entertainment, and subsequently embarked on a successful film career. Either independently or through his company, Kuban produced and directed a number of films. Kuran worked in visual effects for a number of high-budget films, including Addams Family, Men in Black, Robo Cop, and Beetle Juice. In 2002 Kuran earned an Academy Award in the area of science and engineering. A neutron bomb, officially defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate vicinity of the blast while minimizing the physical power of the blast itself. The conception of neutron bombs is generally credited to Samuel T. Cohen of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who developed the concept in 1958. Initial development was carried out as part of projects Dove and Starling, and an early device was tested underground in early 1962. Designs for a "weaponized" version were developed in 1963. The neutron release generated by a nuclear fusion reaction is intentionally allowed to escape the weapon, rather than being absorbed by its other components. The neutron burst, which is used as the primary destructive action of the warhead, is able to penetrate enemy armor more effectively than a conventional warhead, thus making it more lethal as a tactical weapon. ERWs were first operationally deployed for anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs). In this role, the burst of neutrons would cause nearby warheads to undergo partial fission, preventing them from exploding properly. For this to work, the ABM would have to explode within approximately 300 feet of its target. The first example of such a system was the W66, used on the Sprint missile used in the US Nike-X system. Samuel Theodore Cohen (January 25, 1921 November 28, 2010) was an American physicist who is generally credited as the father of the neutron bomb. He was born on January 25, 1921, in Brooklyn and raised in New York City. He studied mathematics and physics at University of California, Los Angeles before joining the United States Army after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1944 he worked on the Manhattan Project in the efficiency group at Los Alamos and calculated how neutrons behaved in Fat Man, the atomic bomb that was later detonated over Nagasaki, Japan. After the war he studied for his Ph.D. at Berkeley before dropping out to join the RAND Corporation. At RAND Corporation in 1950, his work on the intensity of fallout radiation first became public when his calculations were included as a special appendix in Samuel Glasstone's book The Effects of Atomic Weapons. Cohen was personally responsible for recruiting the famous strategist Herman Kahn into the RAND Corporation. During the Vietnam War, Cohen argued that using small neutron bombs would end the war quickly and save many American lives, but politicians were not amenable to his ideas and other scientists ignored the neutron bomb in reviewing the role of nuclear weapons. He was a member of the Los Alamos Tactical Nuclear Weapons Panel in the early 1970s. President Carter delayed development of the neutron bomb in 1978, but during Ronald Reagan's presidency, Cohen claims to have convinced Reagan to make 700 neutron bombs, 350 shells to go into the 8 inch howitzer and 350 W70 Mod. 3 warheads for the Lance missile. Cohen's neutron bomb is not mentioned in the unclassified manual by Glasstone and Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons 19571977, but is included as an "enhanced neutron weapon" in chapter 5 of the declassified (formerly secret) manual edited by Philip J. Dolan, Capabilities of Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Department of Defense, effects manual DNA-EM-1, updated 1981 (U. S. Freedom of Information Act). Cohen asserted that the neutron bomb conforms to just war theories.

First edition, oblong 4to, 141, (1) pp. Photographic illustrations, a handful in colour. Paperback, minor tear to the top edge of the lower cover.

Collection of vintage bound gatherings of storyboards, representing eight sequences from the 1997 film. Storyboards belonging to visual effects producer Peter Kuran, with his name in manuscript ink or pencil on three pages. Sequences represented include an advertisement from the Federal Network, Jump Ball, the brain bug capturing, fleet training, the battle of Klendathu, a bug meteor, the Starship Athena, and asteroid grazing, among others. Based on the 1959 novel by Robert A. Heinlein, about several soldiers serving in the Earth world government military during an interstellar war with an alien species known as Arachnids. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. Xerographically duplicated, rectos only. Approximately 200 leaves. Pages generally Near Fine, variously bound with staples, paper clips, or gold brads.