[5] January 21 - Moral economies of bombmaking
Assigned reading:
Victor Weisskopf, “Working on the Bomb," in The Joy of Insight (1990), 122-155.
Richard Feynman, "Los Alamos from below," in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (1985).
Denise Kiernan, The Girls of Atomic City (2013), 109-130.
Further reading:
Paul Forman, "Independence, not transcendence, for the historian of science," Isis 82 (1991): 71-86.
Erica L. Fraser, “Masculinity in the personal narratives of Soviet nuclear physicists,” Aspasia (2014): 45-63.
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