Book ID: CBB000330252

Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man (2002)

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Norris, Robert S. (Author)


Steerforth Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xxi + 722 pp., illus.
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Wellerstein, Alex
Baggott, Jim
Baracca, Angelo
Cassidy, David C.
Goldberg, Stanley
Hargittai, István
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Historical Records of Australian Science
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Physics Today
Traverse
Encyclopedia of the History of Science
Publishers
Enigma
Harvard University Press
Pegasus Books
Pi Press
Prometheus Books
Springer
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and war; science and the military
Manhattan Project
Physics
Science and politics
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Groves, Leslie R.
Bethe, Hans Albrecht
Oliphant, Mark
Teller, Edward
Weinberg, Alvin Martin
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
Institutions
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
University of California, Berkeley
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
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