Herbert Frank York's Books

First published in 1976, The Advisors is an absorbing look at the technical, strategic, and human aspects of the great debate that led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb, Based on the author's own participation in Project Superbomb, on interviews with other participants, and on declassified documents, this book explains the complete background to this major acceleration of the nuclear arms race. For this reissue, the author has written a new Preface and Epilogue. The reissue also includes a recently declassified essay by Hans A. Bethe discussing the history of the H-bomb project from his unique vantage point as Director of the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos. He has revised the essay specifically for inclusion in this book.

Reviews the Stategic Defense Initiative

Examines the question of whether strategic defense activity, in any form, stimulates a related offensive activity. Although York grants that 'history never repeats itself so exactly that we can be sure...lessons will apply to future situations.' Co-published with the Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

Reviews the Stategic Defense Initiative

From the very start, at the age of twenty-one, Herbert York was swept into the century's most daring and dangerous technical achievement, the making of the atomic bomb. In Arms and the Physicist, 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 where the H-bomb was built; to Washington to eavesdrop on how post-war history was being forged; and to Geneva where he tried to stem the madness. Readers will meet some of our greatest heros and villains--Lawrence, Oppenheimer, Weisskopf, Teller, General Groves, President Eisenhower, and a cast of hundreds--friends, colleagues, enemies, who for more than half a century, held the fate of the world in their hands.

This collection of short fiction features “newfound treasures” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dune (Midwest Book Review). Even the author of Dune—the best-selling science fiction novel of all time—had trouble getting published. At first, Frank Herbert wanted to be a writer, and though today his name is practically synonymous with world-building and epic science fiction, Herbert didn’t start out with a particular genre in mind. He wrote mainstream stories, mysteries, thrillers, mens’ adventure pieces, humorous slice-of-life tales. And, yes, some science fiction. For the first time, this collection presents thirteen completed short stories that Frank Herbert never published in his lifetime. These tales show a great breadth of talent and imagination. Readers can now appreciate the writing of one of the field’s masters in a kaleidoscope of new stories./

Thirty-nine short stories originally published between 1952 and 1979, plus one previously unpublished story.

Book's by Herbert Frank York

The Advisors

The Advisors

A Shield in Space?

A Shield in Space?

Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?

Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?

The Advisors

The Advisors

A Shield in Space?

A Shield in Space?

Arms and the Physicist

Arms and the Physicist

Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?

Does Strategic Defense Breed Offense?

Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories

Frank Herbert: Unpublished Stories

The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert

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