An Open World? – The Legacy of Niels Bohr′s 1950 Open Letter to the United Nations. (Paperback)

The Nuclear Precipice : The History and Control of Nuclear Weapons (Hardcover)

Topic I: Life on the Nuclear Precipice??1. Why Are Nuclear Weapons Different from Other Weapons?? 2. The Nuclear Precipice in the Arts??Topic II: The History of Nuclear Weapons Development??3. Prelude to the Manhattan Project? 4. The Manhattan Project and the End of WW2? 5. Developments after World War 2? 6. Nuclear Designs, Testing, and Safety??Topic III: Physics of Nuclear Weapons Effects??7. Fireball, Blast and Thermal Effects? 8. Prompt Radiation and Fallout? 9. Nuclear Effects in Space??Topic IV: Weapons Production, Nuclear Warfare, and the Cold War??10. SNM Production and the Nuclear Weapons Complex? 11. Nuclear Warfare Concepts: Atomic Weapons? 12. Production and Deployment of Thermonuclear Weapons? 13. Resilience and Declaratory Policy??Topic V: Arms Control, Treaties, and Disarmament??14. Arms Control Activities: 1950?1980? 15. Arms Control Treaties and Disarmament (1980?Present)??Topic VI: Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Safeguards and Forensics??16. The NPT and Nuclear Terrorism? 17. Why Countries Proliferate ? France, Israel, and South Africa? 18. The Indo?Pakistani Arms Race and Other Proliferators? 19. International and Domestic Safeguards? 20. Nuclear Forensics??Topic VII: Current Status of Nuclear Weapons??21. Upgrades of Nuclear Capabilities? 22. Supporting Weapons Upgrades, SNM Production and Other Technologies? 23. The Future of Nuclear Deterrence in a Multi-Polar World??Topic VIII: Emerging Directions??24. Environmental Impacts of Developing Nuclear Weapons? 25. Arms Control in the Future? 26. New Delivery and Defense Systems? 27. Summary Assignments

The Nuclear Precipice : The History and Control of Nuclear Weapons (Paperback)

Topic I: Life on the Nuclear Precipice??1. Why Are Nuclear Weapons Different from Other Weapons?? 2. The Nuclear Precipice in the Arts??Topic II: The History of Nuclear Weapons Development??3. Prelude to the Manhattan Project? 4. The Manhattan Project and the End of WW2? 5. Developments after World War 2? 6. Nuclear Designs, Testing, and Safety??Topic III: Physics of Nuclear Weapons Effects??7. Fireball, Blast and Thermal Effects? 8. Prompt Radiation and Fallout? 9. Nuclear Effects in Space??Topic IV: Weapons Production, Nuclear Warfare, and the Cold War??10. SNM Production and the Nuclear Weapons Complex? 11. Nuclear Warfare Concepts: Atomic Weapons? 12. Production and Deployment of Thermonuclear Weapons? 13. Resilience and Declaratory Policy??Topic V: Arms Control, Treaties, and Disarmament??14. Arms Control Activities: 1950?1980? 15. Arms Control Treaties and Disarmament (1980?Present)??Topic VI: Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Safeguards and Forensics??16. The NPT and Nuclear Terrorism? 17. Why Countries Proliferate ? France, Israel, and South Africa? 18. The Indo?Pakistani Arms Race and Other Proliferators? 19. International and Domestic Safeguards? 20. Nuclear Forensics??Topic VII: Current Status of Nuclear Weapons??21. Upgrades of Nuclear Capabilities? 22. Supporting Weapons Upgrades, SNM Production and Other Technologies? 23. The Future of Nuclear Deterrence in a Multi-Polar World??Topic VIII: Emerging Directions??24. Environmental Impacts of Developing Nuclear Weapons? 25. Arms Control in the Future? 26. New Delivery and Defense Systems? 27. Summary Assignments

Radiation Physics : The Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter (Hardcover)

1. History ?2. Radiation and Relativity ?3. Radiation as Waves and Particles ?4. Nuclear Models ?5. Energetics of Nuclear Reactions ?6. Radioactivity ?7. Radioactive Decay ?8. Nuclear Reactions ?9. Radiation Interactions with Matter ?10. Charged Particle Interactions with Matter ?11. Photon Interactions with Matter ?12. Neutron Interactions with Matter ?13. Radiation Biophysics ?14. Radiation Damage in Materials ?Appendix ?A. Nuclide Data

The Great Atom Debate: Ernst Mach, Ludwig Boltzmann, and the Battle for the Essence of Reality (Hardcover)

Looking Inside Jets: An Introduction to Jet Substructure and Boosted-Object Phenomenology (Paperback, 2, Second 2026)

Introduction to the Physics of Lasers (Hardcover, 1)

1. Laser Light. 2. Maxwell’s Equations, Waves, and Rays. 3.Paraxial Beam Solutions of Wave Equation. 4. Laser Resonators. 5. Electron Oscillator Model of Light-Matter Interaction . 6. Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Response . 7. Population Inversion, Saturation, and Laser Systems. 8: Laser Threshold and Oscillations . 9.Buildup of Oscillations and Quantum Statistics of Laser Light . 10. Laser Transients and Q-switched Operation . 11. Mode-locking and Short Pulse Generation in Lasers. 12. Nonlinear Optics.

Atomic Spectra (Paperback, 1)

1. Introduction? 2. Spectra of the Hydrogen Type? 3. Spectra of Atoms with Two or More Electrons? 4. The Structure of Atoms? 5. The Fine Structure of Spectral Lines? 6. Effect of Applied Fields on Spectral Lines? 7. The Periodic Table? 8. Spectroscopy

You Have 16 Hours : Six Months in the Life of a Detector Physicist (Hardcover)

1. The evening before. 2. What is a testbeam? 3. Six months earlier. 4. What is an SEU (and why do we care)? 5. Four months earlier. 6. What is the ATLAS detector? 7. Two months and one week earlier. 8. How to spot an SEU. 9. Two months earlier. 10. The most boring measurement in the world. 11. One month earlier. 12. How to organise a project with hundreds of members. 13. Two weeks earlier. 14. Time travel in the time of COVID-19 15. One week earlier. 16. What happened in the meantime. 17. The day before. 18. Good luck getting anywhere. 19. The day of. 20. Aftermath.

You Have 16 Hours : Six Months in the Life of a Detector Physicist (Paperback)

1. The evening before. 2. What is a testbeam? 3. Six months earlier. 4. What is an SEU (and why do we care)? 5. Four months earlier. 6. What is the ATLAS detector? 7. Two months and one week earlier. 8. How to spot an SEU. 9. Two months earlier. 10. The most boring measurement in the world. 11. One month earlier. 12. How to organise a project with hundreds of members. 13. Two weeks earlier. 14. Time travel in the time of COVID-19 15. One week earlier. 16. What happened in the meantime. 17. The day before. 18. Good luck getting anywhere. 19. The day of. 20. Aftermath.

Practical Cryostat Design and Construction : Technologies and Customization (Hardcover)

Chapter 1:? ? ? ? ? ?He-3 Cryostat - Basic Concept, Design and Construction.

Chapter 2:? ? ? ? ? ?Sample Loading and Sample Holders in Customized Cryostats.

Chapter 3:? ? ? ? ? ?Cryostat Design for High-Field Magnet with Room Temperature Bore.

Chapter 4:? ? ? ? ? ?Salt Pill Growth for the Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerators.

Chapter 5:? ? ? ? ? ?Joule-Thomson Condensing Assembly Unit.

Chapter 6:? ? ? ? ? ?Excessive Cooling Power from Pulse Tube Refrigerators.

Chapter 7:? ? ? ? ? ?Special Cryostats.

Chapter 8:? ? ? ? ? ?Thermal Boundary Conductance: Modelling and Examples.

Chapter 9:? ? ? ? ? ?Thermometers at Cryogenic Temperatures.

Chapter 10:? ? ? ? ?Impact of High Magnetic Fields on Millikelvin Temperatures.

Chapter 11:? ? ? ? ?Sample Probe for High-Voltage Operations at 400 mK.

Chapter 12:? ? ? ? ?Ultra-High Vacuum Technologies.

Chapter 13:? ? ? ? ?Vapor-Cooled Current Leads for High Field Magnets.

Chapter 14:? ? ? ? ?Copper Thermal Link Fabrication.

Chapter 15:? ? ? ? ?Multilayer Superinsulation.

Chapter 16:? ? ? ? ?Vibration Reduction.

Chapter 17:? ? ? ? ?Cryogenic Electrical Wiring and Cabling and Vacuum Feedthroughs.

Chapter 18:? ? ? ? ?Diverse Techniques in Cryogenic Engineering.

Appendix.? ? ? ? ??

Index.

Nuclear Fusion : At Last? (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: The Problem, Chapter 2: Solutions, Chapter 3: From the Hotter Inside to the Colder Outside, Chapter 4: From the Airplane of Wright Brothers to the Frequent-Flyer Benefits

Nuclear Fusion : At Last? (Paperback)

Chapter 1: The Problem, Chapter 2: Solutions, Chapter 3: From the Hotter Inside to the Colder Outside, Chapter 4: From the Airplane of Wright Brothers to the Frequent-Flyer Benefits

An Introduction to Disorder : Entropy, Information, and Morphologies (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Sequences Of Random Numbers, Chapter 3: Disorder In Crystals, Chapter 4: Entropy, Information, And Disorder, Chapter 5: Amorphous Materials: Polymers, Glasses, Amorphous Networks, Quasicrystals, And Tilings, Chapter 6: Annealed Models, The Replica Method, And Spin Glass, Chapter 7: Diffusion, Localization, And Turing Patterns, Chapter 8: An Introduction To Nonlinear Dynamics, Chapter 9: Fractals, Chapter 10: Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation, Chapter 11: Scaling Theory, Chapter 12: Suggested Simple Problems And Computer Projects

Ideal and Resistive Magnetohydrodynamics (Hardcover, 1)

Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: From Kinetic To Fluid Descriptions, Chapter 3: Fundamentals Of MHD Theory, Chapter 4: MHD Equilibrium, Chapter 5: Linear Ideal MHD Stability Theory In Cylindrical Geometry, Chapter 6: Linear Ideal MHD Stability Theory In Toroidal Geometry, Chapter 7: Linear Resistive MHD Stability Theory In Cylindrical Geometry, Chapter 8: Linear Resistive MHD Stability Theory In Toroidal Geometry, Chapter 9: Nonlinear Stability Theories, Chapter 10: Magnetic Fusion Concepts And Conclusive Remarks

Fr?lich Entropy Estimation and Dielectric Calorimetry: A Flexible Investigation Technique for Condensed Matter (Hardcover)

Advances in Biogerontology: Volume 4 (Hardcover)

1. TBD
Junko Oshima
2. TBD
Naomi R. Baker and Richard Faragher
3. TBD
Mark Christopher Bagley
4. TBD
Li Chan
5. TBD
Caroline Amy Staunton and Richard Kirwan
6. TBD
Lynne Cox
7. TBD
Matt Hardman

Supramolecular Complexes of Oxoporphyrinogens with Organic Molecules (Paperback)

Carbon Materials in Nuclear Technology : Progress and Challenges for Research and Industry (Hardcover)

1.?Carbon’s Nuclear Nexus.? 2.?Bulk Carbon Materials in Fission Energy Application.? 3.?Carbon Based Materials for Nuclear Fusion.? 4.?Nuclear Graphite: Perspective from Fabrication to Use in Nuclear Power Reactors.? 5.?Carbon Materials and Composites for Radiation Shielding Applications.? 6.?Carbon Nano Materials (CNMs) for Applications in Nuclear Fuel Cycles.? 7.?Carbon-Based Materials for Extraction of Lanthanides and Actinides.? 8.?Carbon Nanomaterials at the Back End of Nuclear Fuel Cycle: Opportunities and Challenges.? 9.?Ligand Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes for Separation of Radionuclides from Liquid Phase: Computational Design Validated by Experiments.? 10.?Advanced Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Adsorption and Sensing of Gas and Biomolecules: Insights from Quantum Simulations.? 11.?Role of Carbon in the Synthesis, Densification, and Toughening of Non-Oxide Ceramics.? 12.?Technological Aspect of Coatings in Nuclear Industry: Scalable Approaches for Protecting Carbon-Based Components.? 13.?Carbon Materials for Electron Beam Technology Applications.? 14.?Structural and Functional Role of Activated Carbon in Nuclear Systems.? 15.?Carbon Materials in Batteries: Bridging Advance Lithium and Nuclear Energy Storage.? 16.?Carbon Nanomaterials in Radiotherapy.? 17.?Carbon Nanotube based Macroscopic Materials Synthesis, Challenges, and Applications in the Nuclear Industry.? 18.?Graphene for Nuclear Applications.

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Volume 75 (Hardcover)

Understanding Quantum Many-Body Theory: Fundamental Concepts and Methods (Hardcover)

The Atomic Nucleus: History, Physics and Applications (Hardcover)

Quantum Chaos and Disorder: An Introduction with Sample Programs and Exercises (Paperback)

Hydroxyapatite-Based Nanocomposites: Structure, Mechanics and New Methods (Hardcover)

Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics: Volume 75 (Hardcover)

1. Attosecond metrology and spectroscopy using seeded free-electron lasers