Help finding a book

Do you recall the title and/or author?

Based on your description, it sounds like you may be referring to the book "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes. This book is a historical account of the development of the atomic bomb during World War II and includes detailed discussions and meetings between prominent physicists of that era, including Einstein, Oppenheimer, Bohr, and others. It's a well-regarded book that provides insights into the scientific and historical aspects of the Manhattan Project. If you enjoyed reading about Oppenheimer in the movie, you might find this book to be a fascinating and informative read as well.

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If you enjoyed reading about Oppenheimer in the movie

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There are some very knowledgeable folks on the book board who helped me in a similar situation a couple of years ago.

I think this may be it. I just found another image of it that looks much more familiar and it definitely garnered awards indicative of the section of the store I remember it being in. It was not written by Wallace. Faust in Copenhagen looks interesting too.

I really think this is it. Thanks for the help with so little to go on.

Theres Soul of a Genius. I think that's Einstein and Curie though. Are you referring to the Solvay Conferences?

One World or None?

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“An illuminating, powerful, threatening and hopeful statement which will clarify a lot of confused thinking about atomic energy.” —The New York Herald Tribune Book Review, March 17, 1946

In 1946, just months after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the scientists who had developed nuclear technology came together to express their concerns and thoughts about the nuclear age they had unleashed. In a small, urgent book of essays, legends including Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein, and Robert Oppenheimer try to help readers understand the magnitude of their scientific breakthrough, fret openly about the implications for world policy, and caution, in the words of Nobel Prize–winning chemist Harold C. Urey, that “There Is No Defense.”

The original edition of One World or None sold 100,000 copies and was a New York Times bestseller. Today, with the nuclear issue front and center once more, the book is as timely as ever.

Contributors:

H.H. Arnold
Niels Bohr
Arthur H. Compton
E.U. Condon
Albert Einstein
The Federation of American (Atomic) Scientists
Irving Langmuir
Walter Lippmann
Philip Morrison
J.R. Oppenheimer
Richard Rhodes
Louis N. Ridenour
Frederick Seitz and Hans Bethe
Harlow Shapley
Leo Szilard
Harold Urey
Eugene P. Wigner
Gale Young

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