Nuclear Forces

“A highly readable account . . . tracing the future Nobel laureate through his formative years and up to the eve of World War II” ( The Wall Street Journal ). On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once worked so tirelessly to create? T