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AVOIDING APOCALYPSE
"Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War" tells the little-known story of the world-wide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events. Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott not only led to the end of the Cold War, but the end of the Soviet Union itself.
This book presents an entirely new perspective on how the Cold War ended without triggering apocalyptic nuclear war, always present as a possible endpoint of the Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The importance of exploring this new perspective is that it helps us to understand the risks to the U.S. of learning the wrong lessons from its Cold War “victory”, and how to stop the current and accelerating unraveling of the Cold War stand down and the re-emerging threat of apocalyptic nuclear war.
Extreme Physics
Most matter in the Universe, from the deep interior of planets to the core of stars, is at high temperature or high pressure compared to the matter of our ordinary experience. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic physical theory on matter at such extreme conditions and the mathematical modeling techniques involved in numerical simulations of its properties and behavior. Focusing on computational modeling, the book discusses topics such as the basic properties of dense plasmas; ionization physics; the physical mechanisms by which laser light is absorbed in matter; radiation transport in matter; the basics of hydrodynamics and shock-wave formation and propagation; and numerical simulation of radiation-hydrodynamics phenomenology. End-of-chapter exercises allow the reader to test their understanding of the material and introduce additional physics, making this an invaluable resource for researchers and graduate students in this broad and interdisciplinary area of physics.
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