![]() ![]() ![]() It bogs down in the technical descriptions of how weapons work and the potential yields and the intricacy of radiation. The book itself is a read that tires: after all, his acclamations weren't for literature. His first objection in the mid 1950's, where the only informed voice prepared to go public and he was attacked from the Presidency down. Pauling is the only person to individually win two Nobel prizes - one for chemistry in 1954 and then for peace in 1964. Not only did he gather the support and signature of 51 other Nobel Laureates on his Mainau Declaration opposed to nuclear weapons and present it to the United Nations but in time, added more than 500 additional scientists from across the planet. he not only rocked the political boat but he guided a large proportion of the world's scientists aboard. ![]() At a time when the right held sway in American politics, during a decade when a military application of incredible science placed the world on a precipice overhanging destruction. Linus Pauling was an immensely interesting man. ![]()
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