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The Scientist’s Imagination: Cold War Politics and Nuclear Futures in Leo Szilard’s Fact and Fiction

Creator:

Dvorak, Anna Elizabeth

Abstract:

The story of Leo Szilard has not been told in its full complexity. This is especially so of the role imagination played in Szilard’s worldview. Szilard, like many other scientists in the mid-twentieth century, worked on the Manhattan Project. Like these other wartime participants, the work and relationships formed during...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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underscores the importance of one such petition, the Franck Report, which Szilard contributed to in 1945