"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman"

Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton, 1985
W. W. Norton

Often funny, although anecdotic. The few times physics or maths were actually considered, I didn't quite understand.

Safecracker Meets Safecracker, p 149

I opened the safes which contained all the secrets to the atomic bomb: the schedules for the production of the plutonium, the purification procedures, how much material is needed, how the bomb works, how the neutrons are generated, what the design is, the dimensions --the entire information that was known at Los Alamos: the whole schmeer!

p 155

[T]his big shot Captain had to have a super, super safe, and had people go to all that trouble to hoist the thing up into his office, and he didn't even bother to set the combination.

Judging Books by Their Covers, p 289

[S]ince scientists had made these bombs that were so important, the military felt we were useful for something.

Memoirs ToC
Marc Girod
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