Robert Jungk
Robert Jungk (1913-1994) was an Austrian writer and journalist who wrote mostly on issues relating to nuclear weapons.
He is also well known as the inventor of 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 (...for Future Matters).
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 original edition 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 1999 play, Copenhagen.
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