Heading: (Atomic Bomb)
Author: Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Title: 2 periodical contributions in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Atomic Scientists of Chicago
Date Published: 1947-1948
Description: 2 magazine issues comprising:
"Research Function of the International Agency in Research and Development", pp. 173-176, 197. July 1947. Original wrappers. Based on Oppenheimer's testimony to the new Atomic Energy Commission. (Vertical crease; staining to rear cover and last text page; stain from binding staple)
"Physics in the Contemporary World", Pp. 65-68, 85-86. March 1948. Original wrappers. Based on a lecture delivered at MIT in November 1947 and simultaneously printed in book form.
Articles written by the legendary director of the Manhattan Project, who had supplanted Albert Einstein as the best-known physicist in the world. About to move from Berkeley to join Einstein at Princeton, he had become a prominent advocate for international cooperative control of atomic energy, which proved a pipe-dream after the onset of the Cold War.The Bulletin - now best known for its "Doomsday Clock" - was a postwar forum for scientists, many of whom, in the wake of Hiroshima, were searching for an ethical code of "Social Responsibility". Not all agreed with Oppenheimer's retrospective regrets about the Atomic Bomb he helped create. One editor of the Bulletin, and author of the lead article in the 1947 issue, was Edward Teller, later Oppenheimer's nemesis during the Hydrogen Bomb debate of the McCarthy era which led to his ouster from government. Early copies of the Bulletin, which began publication in December 1945, are becoming increasingly scarce.

Good to very good.