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" The making of the atomic bomb / "
Richard Rhodes
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BL
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704909
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b527098
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| Main Entry
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Rhodes, Richard,1937-
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The making of the atomic bomb /\ Richard Rhodes
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Simon & Schuster,, [1986]
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, ©1986
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886 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0671441337
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: 0671657194
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: 0684813785
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: 9780671441333
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: 9780671657192
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: 9780684813783
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 848-861) and index
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| Contents
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Part 1. Profound and necessary truth -- 1. Moonshine -- 2. Atoms and void -- 3. Tvi -- 4. The long grave already dug -- 5. Men from Mars -- 6. Machines -- 7. Exodus -- 8. Stirring and digging -- 9. An extensive burst -- Part 2. A peculiar sovereignty -- 10. Neutrons -- 11. Cross sections -- 12. A communication from Britain -- 13. The new world -- 14. Physics and desert country -- 15. Different animals -- 16. Revelations -- 17. The evils of this time -- Part 3. Life and death -- 18. Trinity -- 19. Tongues of fire -- Epilogue
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Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan
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Atomic bomb-- History
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623.4/5119/09
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QC773.R46 1986
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Rogers D. Spotswood Collection.
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