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
Badash, Lawrence
Bailey, Janet
Brode, Bernice
Broida, Herbet P.
Evans, Jacob
Fanton, Jonathan F.
Journals
History of Technology
Publishers
Los Alamos Historical Society
Abrams
Addison-Wesley
Arlington Place Press
Prentice-Hall
Reidel
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
People
Morgan, Karl Ziegler
Richards, Hugh T.
Hammel, Edward Frederick
Time Periods
20th century
Institutions
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
Peenemünde (Germany)
Sandia National Laboratories (United States)
United States. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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