Article ID: CBB001250050

The End of Manhattan: How the Gas Centrifuge Changed the Quest for Nuclear Weapons (2012)

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Description Looks at the creation of the first successful centrifuge by German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.


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Authors & Contributors
Reed, B. Cameron
Kessenikh, Alexandr Vladimirovich
Kenji Ito
Anna Konieczna
Candela, Andrea
Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
Journals
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Physics in Perspective
VIET: Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki
The Chemical Educator
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Journal of Cold War Studies
Publishers
University of New Mexico Press
University of Nebraska Press
Enigma
Basic Books
Concepts
Manhattan Project
Uranium
Nuclear chemistry
Nuclear industry
Science and war; science and the military
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
People
Pontekorvo, Bruno
Kamen, Martin David
Smyth, Charles Phelps
Rosenberg, Julius
Fermi, Enrico
Cowan, George A.
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century, early
19th century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
South Africa
Japan
Italy
Germany
Institutions
United States War Department
KGB
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
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