books by Spencer R. Weart

books by Spencer R. Weart

books:

Spencer R. Weart

Scientists in Power
Spencer R. Weart

Harvard University Press, 1979

A small group of scientists in Paris was among the first in the world to take nuclear fission dead seriously. During one extraordinary year the team wrote a secret patent, sketched a workable device, and persuaded government and industry to underwrite their research. The year was 1939. The secret patent was a crude uranium bomb. The ...

Never at War: Why Democracies Will Not Fight One Another

Spencer R. Weart

Yale University Press, 2000

Thoughtful: 4.5 stars
This is a well written and thoughtful analysis of the "democratic peace theory" argument. A number of political scientists have argued that one of the few empirically established truths of international relations is that democracies do not war on each other. This idea ...

Nuclear Fear: A History of Images

Spencer R. Weart

Harvard University Press, 1989

Brilliant. Original. Very scarry. A must.
If you are like me, you have a pile of books that you keep meaning to get around to, and, due to time constraints, rarely do. This book is the exception-read it now. It is quite possibly one of the most original books of this past quarter century. Weart is the ...

The Discovery of Global Warming, revised and expanded edition (New Histories of Science, Technology, and ...

Spencer R. Weart

Harvard University Press, 2008

A Concise History of the Subject
As a reviewer of nonfiction I tend to rate based on whether or not the author achieves the goal stated in the introduction. When this book was written the shelves were far less crowded than today, but it still serves its purpose in giving the reader a layout of a ...

History of Physics (Readings from Physics Today, No 2)

Spencer R. Weart

AIP Press, 1985

Bravo!
Rather than a collection of historically important papers, this is a collection of papers ABOUT the history of physics (spread over the history of Physics Today). I was confused at first, but I'm not disappointed in the book. This book has a large-format with plenty ...