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The Manhattan Project /

"The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the deve...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hunt, Ken, 1991- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, 2020.
Collection:Brave & brilliant series ; no. 14.
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Table des matières:
  • Intro
  • the atoms we cleave
  • the arms race
  • below oklo
  • ideal isotopes
  • critical mass
  • thuringia
  • trinity
  • ghosts of los alamos
  • valles caldera
  • industrial complex
  • military incidents
  • dull swords
  • broken arrows
  • bent spear
  • empty quivers
  • faded giants
  • nucflash
  • rain of ruin
  • clear skies
  • operation epsilon
  • contamination
  • the east ural reserve
  • the argonne incident
  • the human factor
  • rising water
  • doomsday machines
  • antimatter
  • strangelet
  • red mercury
  • destroyers of worlds
  • fallout
  • Acknowledgments