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The highway of the atom /

"A subarctic mine on the far eastern shores of Great Bear Lake provided Canadian uranium for the bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945. However, a complete history of Canada's involvement in the Manhattan project and the development of the atomic bomb has been thwarted by restrictions...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Van Wyck, Peter C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Field note : Great Bear Lake, 30 July 2003
  • Archive
  • Tracking stories
  • History
  • Writing
  • Map
  • Theory
  • Field note : Apology, November 2002
  • the route
  • A gentle compulsiveness
  • Material
  • Village of widows
  • Punctum
  • Rice Christians : Who knew?
  • Cargo cult
  • Magic
  • Field note : Two contrasting figures, May 2003
  • Field note : Tulite, 6 August 2003
  • The idea of north
  • Naming
  • Field note : Yellowknife, Explorer Hotel, August 2003
  • Field note : Northern metaphor, Norway Point, February 2005
  • Field note : Landscape, Yellowknife, August 2007
  • Field note : Tigullapaa, Nuuk, Greenland, 25 August 2008
  • Field note : Norway Point, April 2009
  • Abduction
  • Birth order
  • Vision
  • Meanwhile
  • Radium
  • Sum and remainder
  • Finding aids
  • Field note : Cobalt-bloom and copper-green : Echo Bay, 2003
  • Pitchblende
  • Congo
  • White myth
  • Oh Canada : More silence
  • Field note : Cameron Bay, August 2003
  • Field note : Bewilderment, Déline, 2003
  • Field note : Grey Goose Inn, Déline, 25 July 2003
  • Field note : Arctic Circle (66 [degrees] 32)́ : 1 August 2005
  • Chorography
  • Field note : Port Radium, 30 July 2003
  • Field note : Déline, August 2003
  • The stones are speaking now
  • Phantoms
  • Alibi
  • Lieux de Mémoire ; A mnemonics of catastrophe
  • Abduction and the accident
  • Shipwreck with raven
  • Field note : New Mexico, February 2004
  • From figure to metaphor
  • Spectator
  • Ecology
  • Story
  • Erasure, redux
  • Equivalence
  • Field note : Black River, 3 August 2005
  • Field note : Mackenzie River, 3 August 2005
  • Field notes in the margins
  • Field note : Tulita (Fort Norman), 6 August 2005
  • Field note : Tsiigehtchic (Arctic Red River), 6 August 2005
  • Problems
  • Field note : (The Gift) Déline, February 2003.