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Illustrations | xi | |
Preface | xiii | |
Acknowledgments | xvii | |
Introduction: Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs | 3 | |
1 | "What We Can Say about Nature": Metaphor, Analogy, and the Birth of Subatomic Physics | 31 |
2 | "Wandering on New Paths": Niels Bohr's Complementarity Principle | 55 |
3 | "The Sense of Option in Knowledge": The Blegdamsvej Faust and Quantum Mechanics | 81 |
4 | The Los Alamos Primer: The Uses of Fiction in Founding a Laboratory | 109 |
5 | A City on "The Hill": Decoding Life at Los Alamos | 139 |
6 | New Worlds, Old Words: The Exploration and Discovery of Nuclear Physics | 161 |
7 | "Taking the Cloth": The Moral Texture of Los Alamos | 183 |
8 | "Beggared Description": Writing Nuclear Weapons | 205 |
9 | Physics in Fiction: "The Voice of the Dolphins" and Riddley Walker | 227 |
Notes | 253 | |
Bibliography | 285 | |
Index | 301 |
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