Book ID: CBB000772752

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (2007)

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Gordin, Michael D. (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xv + 209 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Dorn, Harold (2008) Review of "Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War". Technology and Culture (p. 812). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Edward P.F. Rose
Peter B. Thompson
Michael Toscano
H. R. Everett
Salio, Giovanni
Olson, Steve
Concepts
World War II
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Physics
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and war; science and the military
Atomic bomb
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
Canada
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
United States War Department
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
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