RARE! "The Manhattan Project" Bernard Feld Hand Written Letter Todd Mueller COA

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VERY RARE! "The Manhattan Project" Bernard T. Feld Hand Written Letter.
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Bernard Taub Feld
(December 21, 1919 – February 19, 1993) was a
professor
of
physics
at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. He helped develop the
atomic bomb
, and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons.
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His life could be effectively summed up with the following famous quotation: I was involved in the original sin, and I have spent a large part of my life atoning for it. –
Bernard T. Feld
Feld was born in
Brooklyn
,
New York
. He graduated from the
City College of New York
with a bachelor of science degree in 1939. He began graduate school at
Columbia University
, but suspended his studies to join the American war effort. He spent the war serving as an assistant to
Enrico Fermi
and
Leó Szilárd
working on the
Manhattan Project
. After
World War II
, he returned to
Columbia University
to receive his PhD in 1945 with thesis advisor
Willis Lamb
. Feld was on the faculty of MIT from 1948 until he retired in 1990. During this time, he was President of the
Albert Einstein Peace Prize Foundation
, editor of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
, and head of the
American Pugwash Committee
.
Feld was a
Ford Foundation
Fellow and a visiting scientist at the
European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN)
in
Geneva
, Switzerland.
The
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
won the
Nobel Peace Prize
in 1995. Feld was a leader in these conferences, serving as U.S. Chairman from 1963 to 1973 and as International Chairman from 1973 to 1978. It was in this role that he attracted the anger of
Richard Nixon
's White House. He was eleventh on
Nixon's list of enemies
, a fact that pleased him tremendously.
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"One month after the election of Ronald Reagan, Feld being an editor of 'Bulletin of the American Atomic Scientists' reported that his publication had decided to move the hands on the
Doomsday Clock
featured on its cover from seven to four minutes to midnight, because, as 'the year drew to a close, the world seemed to be moving unevenly but inexorably closer to nuclear disaster' ".