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Author : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : CHI:12042549
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803298722
Author : David Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : UOM:39015086497735
Author : David Hawkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : UOM:39015086497727
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:803298722
Author : Bruce Cameron Reed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662581759
The development of atomic bombs under the auspices of the U.S. Army’s Manhattan Project during World War II is considered to be the outstanding news story of the twentieth century. In this book, a physicist and expert on the history of the Project presents a comprehensive overview of this momentous achievement. The first three chapters cover the history of nuclear physics from the discovery of radioactivity to the discovery of fission, and would be ideal for instructors of a sophomore-level “Modern Physics” course. Student-level exercises at the ends of the chapters are accompanied by answers. Chapter 7 covers the physics of first-generation fission weapons at a similar level, again accompanied by exercises and answers. For the interested layman and for non-science students and instructors, the book includes extensive qualitative material on the history, organization, implementation, and results of the Manhattan Project and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing missions. The reader also learns about the legacy of the Project as reflected in the current world stockpiles of nuclear weapons. This second edition contains important revisions and additions, including a new chapter on the German atomic bomb program and new sections on British and Canadian contributions to the Manhattan project and on feed materials. Several other sections have been expanded; reader feedback has been helpful in introducing minor corrections and improved explanations; and, last but not least, the second edition includes a detailed index.
Author : John J. Sbrega
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317431787
With over 5,200 entries, this volume remains one of the most extensive annotated bibliographies on the USA’s fight against Japan in the Second World War. Including books, articles, and de-classified documents up to the end of 1987, the book is organized into six categories: Part 1 presents reference works, including encyclopedias, pictorial accounts, military histories, East Asian histories, hisotoriographies. Part 2 covers diplomatic-political aspects of the war against Japan. Part 3 contains sources on the economic and legal aspects of the war against Japan. Part 4 presents sources on the military apsects of the war – embracing land, air and sea forces. Religious aspects of the war are covered in Part 5 and Part 6 deals with the social and cultural aspects, including substantial sections on the treatment of Japanese minorities in the USA, Hawaii, Canada and Peru.
Author : Barton C. Hacker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520083237
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015086571836
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1500 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015023523965
Author : Frances Joan Mathien,Charlie R. Steen,Craig Daniel Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
ISBN : UCR:31210024860379
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112093823
Author : Mike Rossiter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510726758
The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the first time his long career of espionage. It proves that he played a pivotal role in Britain's bomb program in the race to keep up with the United States in the atomic age, and that he revealed vital secrets about the atom bomb, as well as the immensely destructive hydrogen bomb to the Soviet Government. It is a dramatic tale of clandestine meetings, deadly secrets, family entanglements and illicit love affairs, all set against the tumultuous years from the rise of Hitler to the start of the Cold War.
Author : David Hawkins,Edith C. Truslow,Ralph Carlisle Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Atomic bomb
ISBN : WISC:89016086225
Author : Harlow Wilson Russ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029040891
