Eden responds: I accept Peter Zimmerman’s apology and explanation for misstating the yields and burst heights in the first chapter of Whole World on Fire. My own figures, however, strengthen my case, not his, as readers of the book will readily see. I also appreciate Zimmerman’s statement that “perhaps” he should not have called my book a “diatribe” nor indicated that I saw a “conspiracy”—themes that run throughout much of his original review, but that do not figure in my book. Finally, I did not write about heroes or scoundrels but about how professionals in organizations, in focusing on certain problems, can undermine their own ability to see and solve other problems that can prove highly consequential.
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2005
American Institute of Physics
