Reminiscences of Bernard Taub Feld : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Physicist.

Scope and Contents

B.S. City College of New York; work with Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, Columbia University, Ph. D., 1945, construction of model nuclear reactors; development of Hanford reactors under Arthur Compton, Chicago, 1941; Los Alamos; Atomic Scientists' Movement: reaction to use of atomic bombs on Japan, lobbying in Washington, BULLETIN, purpose and function of Atomic Energy Commission; Pugwash Conferences; effects of radiation exposure on health; problems of nuclear power: disposal of waste, military control, United States-Soviet relations.

Subjects

• Arms control.
• Feld, Bernard T. (Bernard Taub), 1919-1993.
• Interviews.
• Nuclear energy.
• Nuclear facilities--United States.
• Nuclear nonproliferation.
• Nuclear warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
• Oral histories.
• Physicists--Interviews.
• Smith, P. K., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

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