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Atoms, bombs, & eskimo kisses

a memoir of father and son

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An edition of Atoms, bombs, & eskimo kisses (1995)

Atoms, bombs, & eskimo kisses

a memoir of father and son

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To Claudio Segre, an eight-year-old fan of Superman comic books, his father, Emilio, appeared to have nothing in common with the Man of Steel. Nor did the small and isolated army post in the mountains of New Mexico where he was growing up appear unusual. Then came Hiroshima. To the boy's astonishment, he discovered that Los Alamos, the town he called home, was a community of Supermen, ranging from his brilliant and prickly father to the giants of twentieth-century physics, like J.

Robert Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi.

Growing up among them made for an exhilarating childhood - and a difficult father-son relationship. In a memoir that recalls Geoffrey Wolff's Duke of Deception, Segre recalls his father with awe and rage, grief and humor. He remembers his father's dry wit, his explosive temper, his impatient explanations of his work. He relives the clashes between the elder Segre's elitist European culture and the son's more democratic American outlook.

Most of all, the author recalls the tentative, awkward moment when father and son playfully rubbed noses in the "Eskimo kiss" that sealed and symbolized their complex relationship. A personal exorcism and reconciliation, and a look at the immigrant experience, Atoms, Bombs and Eskimo Kisses is also a slice of history on the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
287

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-287).

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
530/.092, B
Library of Congress
DG465.7.S43 A3 1995, DG465.7.S43 A3 1995, DG465.7.S43A3 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 287 p. :
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1276022M
Internet Archive
atomsbombseskimo0000segr
ISBN 10
0670863076
LCCN
95007629
OCLC/WorldCat
32199548
Library Thing
2621663
Goodreads
323032

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