Canaday, a poet and playwright who has been a Watson Fellow and a Starbuck Fellow in Poetry at Boston University, analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after
WWII, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientist's descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's
postwar novella, The Voice of the Dolphins . He looks at physicists' use of figurative language in the development of quantum theory, and examines the role played by the rhetorics of
exploration and religion in the construction of the Los Alamos community. Includes b&w historical photos. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
