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York, Herbert Frank was born on November 24, 1921 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Herbert Frank and Nellie Elizabeth (Lang) York.
(The essays in this volume present Herbert York's historic...)
The essays in this volume present Herbert York's historical and political analyses of the major events of the arms race. York is the former director of research and engineering at the Defence Department, former chief U.S. negotiator for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and former director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Reflecting on his wide-ranging career and involvement in national security and the role of nuclear technology. Historians of science and physics, political scientists, and interested lay readers.
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At the age of 21, York was swept into the century's most daring & dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. During his 50-year career as scientist & statesman, York was in the midst of the controversy. York takes us backstage to witness key events of our time: to the Manhattan Project for the birth of the atomic bomb; to Lawrence Livermore Lab. where the H-bomb was built; to Wash., D.C., to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; & to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness. Along the way, you'll meet some of our greatest heroes & villains -- Lawrence, Oppenheimer, Weisskopf, Teller, Gen. Groves, Pres. Eisenhower, & a cast of hundreds who for more than a century held the fate of the world in their hands.
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York, Herbert Frank was born on November 24, 1921 in Rochester, New York, United States. Son of Herbert Frank and Nellie Elizabeth (Lang) York.
Bachelor of Arts Rochester, 1942. Master of Science, University Rochester, 1943. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1949.
Doctor of Science (honorary), Case Institute of Technology, 1960. Doctor of Laws, University San Diego, 1964. Doctor of Laws, Claremont Graduate School, 1974.
Joined staff of California University Radiation Laboratory 1943. Attached to Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1944-1945. Undertook, with Doctor Hugh Bradner, design and execution of major experiment in “Operation Greenhouse" (Eniwetok) 1950. Physicist Radiation Laboratory, University California, Berkeley, 1943-1958, associate director, 1954-1958. Assistant professor physics department University California, 1951-1954, associate professor, 1954-1959, professor, 1959-1961. Director Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, 1952-1958.
Chief Advanced Research Project Agency United States Department Defense, 1958, director advanced research projects division Institute for Defense Analyses, 1958, director defense research & engineering, 1958-1961. Chancellor University California-San Diego, 1961—1964, acting chancellor, 1970—1972, professor physics, 1964—1988, professor emeritus, 1988—2009, chairman department physics, 1968-1969, dean graduate studies, 1969-1970, director program on science, technical public affairs, 1972-1988. Director Institute Global Conflict and Cooperation, 1983-1988, director emeritus, 1988—2009.
Ambassador Comprehensive Test Ban Negotiations, 1979-1981. Trustee Aerospace Corporation, Inglewood, California, 1961-1987. Member President's Science Advisory Committee, 1957-1958, 64-68, vice chairman, 1965-1967.
Trustee Institute defense Analysis, 1963-1996. General advisory committee Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1962-1969. Member Defense Science Board, 1977-1981.Special representative of secretary defense at space arms control talks, 1978-1979. Member task force future national laboratories Secretary Emergy, 1994-1995. Consultant Stockholm International Peach Research Institute.
Researcher in application atomic energy to national defense problems of arms control and disarmament, elementary particles.
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Author: Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, 1970, Arms Control, 1973, The Advisors, 1976, Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Journey From Hiroshima to Geneva, 1987, Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?, 1987, (with Sanford Lakoff) A Shield in the Sky, 1989, Arms and the Physicist, 1994. Also numerous articles on arms or disarmament. Board directors Bulletin Atomic Scientists.
Defense Science Board 1978-1982. Army and Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. 1957-1958, 1964-1968.
General Advisory Committee for Arms Control and Disarmament 1962-1969. President’s Commission, on Mil. Compensation 78; Board of Trustees, Aerospace Corporation 1961-1987, Board of Trustees, Institute for Defense Analyses since 1964.
Board of directors, Education Foundation for Nuclear Science.; American Academy, of Arts and Sciences.
Married Sybil Dunford, September 28, 1947. Children: David Winters, Rachel, Cynthia.