San Diego, CA Houghton Mifflin 1970 Trade paperback Very good. Pages are clean and free of markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 384 p. Audience: General/trade.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, c1961. Presumed later printing. Trade paperback. Good. xiv, 369, [1] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Illustrated front cover. Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum, also known as Robert Baum-Jungk; 11 May 1913 - 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Jungk was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, known as Max Jungk, was born David Baum (1872, Miskovice - 1937, Prague). When Adolf Hitler came to power, Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him to move through various cities, such as Prague, Paris, and Zurich, during World War II. He continued journalism after the war. His book, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the German project had been purposely dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates (a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr), and led to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen. In 1986, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling indefatigably on behalf of ...

ISBN10: 0156141507, ISBN13: 9780156141505, [publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York] Softcover xiv, 369, [1] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Appendices. Index. Illustrated front cover. Robert Jungk (born Robert Baum, also known as Robert Baum-Jungk; 11 May 1913 - 14 July 1994) was an Austrian writer, journalist, historian and peace campaigner who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Jungk was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, known as Max Jungk, was born David Baum (1872, Miskovice - 1937, Prague). When Adolf Hitler came to power, Jungk was arrested and released, moved to Paris, then back to Nazi Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him to move through various cities, such as Prague, Paris, and Zurich, during World War II. He continued journalism after the war. His book, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, was the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the German project had been purposely dissuaded from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates (a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr), and led to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen. In 1986, he received the Right Livelihood Award for "struggling ...