Jeremy Bernstein

Jeremy Bernstein is a physicist who worked at Los Alamos. His Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element was published in paperback in March. (April 2009)

From the Review

May 28, 2009: What A.Q. Khan Really Did (letter)

April 9, 2009: He Changed History

April 3, 2008: 'A Solution for the US–Iran Nuclear Standoff': An Exchange

February 14, 2008: In Hillary's Tent (letter)

August 16, 2007: Einstein: An Exchange

November 2, 2006: What Happened at Oak Ridge (letter)

May 25, 2006: The Secrets of the Bomb

Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea by Jeffrey T. Richelson

November 3, 2005: The Man Who Said No

April 28, 2005: Social Insecurity

November 6, 2003: Heisenberg & the Bomb: An Exchange

August 14, 2003: Dreaming of Corsica

Pascal Paoli: Père de la patrie corse by Antoine-Marie Graziani

April 25, 2002: The Ethical Culture School (letter)

September 20, 2001: Heisenberg's Visit: An Exchange

February 8, 2001: Heisenberg in Copenhagen: An Exchange

May 11, 2000: Creators of the Bomb

In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist by S.S. Schweber

September 23, 1999: Donne and the Bomb (letter)

June 12, 1997: The Road to Lhasa

Younghusband: The Last Great Imperial Adventurer by Patrick French

November 16, 1995: Odd Man In

Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager

May 25, 1995: The Passions of Mme. Curie

Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn

March 23, 1995: Emilio Segre (letter)

March 24, 1994: Eye on the Prize

A Mind Always in Motion: The Autobiography of Emilio Segrè by Emilio Segrè

August 13, 1992: The Farm Hall Transcripts: The German Scientists and the Bomb

January 16, 1992: The Heisenberg Case: An Exchange

September 26, 1991: King of the Quantum

Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity by Abraham Pais

June 27, 1991: The Nazis and the Atom Bomb: An Exchange

April 11, 1991: The Charms of a Physicist

The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist by Victor Weisskopf

April 14, 1988: I Am a Camera

Land's Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It by Peter C. Wensberg

February 18, 1982: Man and Supermini (letter)

October 8, 1981: Modern Times

The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

Books by Jeremy Bernstein

Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings (2000)
An Introduction to Cosmology (1998)
Albert Einstein and the Frontiers of Physics (1997)
Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall (1996)
A Theory for Everything (1996)
Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos: Writings on Science (1993)
Quantum Profiles (1991)
In the Himalayas: Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan (1989)
The Tenth Dimension: An Informal History of High-Energy Physics (1989)
Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe (1988)
The Life It Brings: One Physicist's Beginnings (1987)
Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age (1984)
Science Observed: Essays Out of My Mind (1982)
The Analytical Engine: Computers--Past, Present, and Future (1981)
Hans Bethe, Prophet of Energy (1980)
Experiencing Science (1978)
Science and the Human Imagination: Albert Einstein: Papers and Discussions (1978)
Einstein (1973)
The Wildest Dreams of Kew: A Profile of Nepal (1970)
Ascent: the Invention of Mountain Climbing & Its Practice (1965)