Science and the Common Understanding
by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Longmont, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
1st Edition/1st Printing. Hardcover in G+ condition without Dust Jacket. Ownership signature on first blank page. Some fading and shelf wear to the cover, top of pages have darkened.
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1954. black textured boards with black cloth spine. Gilt title on front cover and spine. 120 pages.
Published just after Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) due to his opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb and his past associations with the Communist Party USA.
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- Bookseller
- Barbed Wire Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- R0210
- Title
- Science and the Common Understanding
- Author
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Atomic Bomb, Oppenheimer, Atomic Energy, Physics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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