Robert Jungk (1913-1994) was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons. Though anyone who creates a written work may be called a writer, the term is usually reserved for those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A journalist is a person engaged in the profession of journalism. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

A Jewish student in Berlin when Hitler came to power, was arrested, released, moved to Paris, then back to Germany to work in a subversive press service. These activities forced him to move through various cities Prague, Paris, Zurich, during the war. He continued journalism after the war. Berlin (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ...

He is also well known as the inventor of future workshop (http://www.zwnetz.de/Epages/willk.html) which are a method for social innovation, participation by the concerned and visionary future planning "from below". There is an international library in Salzburg (Austria) called Robert Jungk Bibliothek fur Zukunftsfragen (http://www.jungk-bibliothek.at) (...for Future Matters). This page is for the city of Salzburg. ...

His book Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists was the first published account of the German atomic bomb project, and its first Danish edition included a passage which implied that the project had been purposely driven away from developing a weapon by Werner Heisenberg and his associates (a claim strongly contested by Niels Bohr), and lead to a series of questions over a 1941 meeting between Bohr and Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Denmark, which was later the basis for Michael Frayn's 1998 play, Copenhagen. The German experimental nuclear pile at Haigerloch The German nuclear energy project was an endeavor by scientists during World War II in Nazi Germany to develop nuclear energy and an atomic bomb for practical use. ... Werner Heisenberg Werner Karl Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 – February 1, 1976) was a celebrated German physicist and Nobel laureate, one of the founders of quantum mechanics. ... Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (October 7, 1885 – November 18, 1962) was a Danish physicist who made essential contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. ... City nickname: none Location in Denmark Area  - Total  - Water 526 km² xxx km² xx% Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density 502,204 1,116,979 954/km&sup2 [including water] xxx/km&sup2 [land only] Time zone Eastern: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 55°43 N 12°34 W Copenhagen (Danish: K... Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ... Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. ...

In 1992 he made an unsuccessful bid for the Austrian presidency on behalf of the Green Party. 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• Jungk, Robert. Tomorrow Is Already Here, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1954. Reportage on scientific and technical breakthroughs, a work of nascent distopian 'futurism'. Much of it was about what developed from the Manhattan Project, as well as things like "electronic brains".
• ---- Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1958
• ---- Children of the Ashes, 1st English ed. 1961. About Hiroshima
• ---- The Nuclear State
• ---- The Everyman Project
• ---- Future Workshops

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External link

• "Robert Jungk, futurist and social inventor" (http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=145)