Weapons and Hope.

DYSON, Freeman.

Item Number: 110964

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984.

First edition, second printing of Dyson’s National Book Critics Circle Award-winning work on the nuclear dilemma. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “For Barbara Scott, oldest and dearest of our friends with love from Freeman.” The recipient was a close family friend of Dyson and his second wife Imme Jung. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Paul Perlow. Jacket photograph by Miriam Dyson.

In Dyson's fourth book, Weapons and Hope, the great physicist offers a vivid explanation of the nuclear dilemma and a deep understanding of real hope. Exploring the cultural and historical context of nuclear weapons, Dyson weaves together the interconnections of the past and future, showing that, although nuclear weapons have a unique potency, they are part of the long history of man and war and that our hopes for their control lie within our cultural, political and technical possibilities.