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The American lab : an insider's history of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory /
"In The American Lab, former LLNL director Bruce Tarter captures the spirit of the Laboratory and its reflection of the broader world in which it thrived. He identifies the major themes that have characterized science and technology in the latter half of the twentieth century--the growth and de...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Johns Hopkins nuclear history and contemporary affairs
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Making the Cold War Cold, 1952-1971; 1. Origins; 2. Getting Started; 3. The Foundation of Deterrence; 4. Arms Control, Atoms for Peace, and the Test Ban; 5. Organization and Evolution of the Laboratory; 6. Development of the Stockpile; 7. Nuclear Excursions; 8. Transition; Part II. Lasers, Lasers, Nothing but Lasers, 1971-1988; 9. Changing of the Guard; 10. The Nuclear Weapons Program; 11. Lasers; 12. The Energy Crisis and New Programs; 13. Evolution of the Broader Lab; 14. Star Wars; 15. End of the Era.
- Part III. Renaissance, Repression, and Reorganization, 1988-200816. End of the Cold War; 17. Post-Cold War Changes; 18. Early Days with the New Administration; 19. Stockpile Stewardship and the Presidential Decision; 20. Growth of the Lab; 21. The Troubles and Their Weathering; 22. Summing Up; 23. Transitional Years; Epilogue; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.