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
Cioci, Vincenzo
Bini, Elisabetta
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Holden, Darren
Williams, Hill
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and war; science and the military
Manhattan Project
Physics
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
Great Britain
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
Institutions
United States. Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos
University of California, Berkeley
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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