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Index
Front Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Illustrations
Introduction to the 2013 Edition
Foreword by Jonas Salk
Preface
Part One (1898–1933)
1 The Family
2 View from the Villa
3 Schoolboy, Soldier, and Socialist
4 Scholar and Scientist
5 Just Friends
6 Einstein
7 Restless Research and the Bund
8 A New World, a New Field, a New Fear
9 Refuge
Photo Insert 1
Part Two (1933–1945)
10 “Moonshine”
11 Chain-Reaction “Obsession”
12 Travels with Trude
13 Bumbling toward the Bomb
14 “I Haven’t Thought of That at All”
15 Fission + Fermi = Frustration
16 Chain Reaction Versus the Chain of Command
17 Visions of an “Armed Peace”
18 Three Attempts to Stop the Bomb. . .
19 . . . And Two to Stop the Army
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Part Three (1946–1964)
20 A Last Fight with the General
21 A New Life, an Old Problem
22 Marriage on the Run
23 Oppenheimer and Teller
24 Arms Control
25 Biology
26 Beating Cancer
27 Meeting Khrushchev
28 Is Washington a Market for Wisdom?
29 Seeking a More Livable World
30 La Jolla: Personal Peace
Epilogue
Chronology of Leo Szilard’s Life
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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