Book ID: CBB000030597

Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945 (1993)

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Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 1993
Edition Details: [By] Hoddeson, Lillian, Henriksen, Paul W., Meade, Roger A., Westfall, Catherine. With contributions by Gordan Baym, Richard Hewlett, Alison Kerr, Robert Penneman, Leslie Redman, and Robert Seidel.
Physical Details: xv + 509 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Goldberg, S. (1995) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 520-22). unapi

Review French, A.P. (1993) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Nature (pp. 220-21). unapi

Review Walker, M. (1995) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (pp. 117-20). unapi

Review Seely, B.E. (1995) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Technology and Culture (pp. 1053-55). unapi

Review Edgerton, D. (1996) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 187-89). unapi

Review Peierls, R. (1994) Review of "Critical assembly: A technical history of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer years, 1943-1945". Science (pp. 1162-63). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Taylor, Bryan C.
Roger Meade
Philip Vandemeer
York, Herbert F.
Wilson, Jane S.
Truslow, Edith C.
Journals
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
History of Technology
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Publishers
Los Alamos Historical Society
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Arizona State University
Vantage Press
University of California Press
Stanford University Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Atomic bomb
Physics
Biographies
Science and politics
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Hammel, Edward Frederick
Teller, Edward
Lawrence, Ernest Orlando
Halliday, James Lorimer
Fermi, Enrico
Time Periods
20th century
Places
Marshall Islands
Institutions
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
Sandia National Laboratories (United States)
Peenemünde (Germany)
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