The Manhattan Project Big Science and the Atom Bomb |
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| Author:
| Hughes, Jeff |
| Series title: | Revolutions in Science Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-13152-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2003 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $46.95 |
Book Description:
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This absorbing history revisits the interactions among science, the national interest, and public and private funding that was initiated in World War I and flourished in WWII. It then follows the Manhattan Project from inception to dissolution, describing the primary influences that helped execute the world's first successful plan for nuclear research and tracing the lineages of modern national nuclear agencies back to their source.
This absorbing history revisits the interactions among science, the national interest, and public and private funding that was initiated in World War I and flourished in WWII. It then follows the Manhattan Project from inception to dissolution, describing the primary influences that helped execute the world's first successful plan for nuclear research and tracing the lineages of modern national nuclear agencies back to their source.