John Canaday is a prize-winning poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and the Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University. He tutors students in literature, writing, history, mathematics, and physics.
"A revelatory exploration of the relation between literary and
scientific languages, which John Canaday analyzes with an
exceptional sophistication that combines analytical rigor and a
wonderful aesthetic and moral sensibility."--Myra Jehlen, Rutgers
University
"A stunning examination of how nuclear physicists of the early
twentieth century used literary conventions to translate their
discoveries about nature into human language, and used that same
language to deal with the human and moral consequences of their
development of the bomb."--Nicholas Clifford, Middlebury
College
"Canaday's insightful study has added a fourth dimension to our
understanding of how we 'learned to stop worrying and love the
bomb.'"--Martin J. Sherwin, author of A World Destroyed: Hiroshima
and its Legacies
"Physicists in the first half of this century became caught up in
knowledge, ways of doing science, military projects, and social
consequences that pushed their means of representation and
understanding to the limit. This important study reveals how the
Los Alamos physicists adopted literary modes of expression to come
to terms with the worlds they were making and
transforming."--Charles Bazerman, author of Shaping Written
Knowledge
"The existence of 'the bomb' as a literary device is, Canaday
demonstrates, as significant as its military and political reality.
A fascinating and literate glimpse at the words, metaphors, texts,
and subtexts that have shaped our nuclear age."--Richard Wolfson,
author of Nuclear Choices
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