Ben Bederson interview of Larry Spruch, Sidney Borowitz and Ed Gerjuoy on their childhood and growing up in New York; source of their interest in physics; various influences in their lives; college and graduate school, and their careers. Topics discussed include: religion, Hebrew school, chess, City College, mathematics, physics, anti-semitism, Julian Schwinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Murray Gell-Mann, accounting, marriage, World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer, University of California Berkeley, Undersea Warfare, United States Navy, New York University, Western Electric Company, George Washington University, Leonard Schiff, University of Pennsylvania, Victor Weisskopf, atomic physics, theoretical physics, University of Southern California, University of Pittsburgh, law school, environmental law, quantum mechanics, Harvard University, Oxford University, China, Russia.