Book ID: CBB000501550

109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos (2005)

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Conant, Jennet (Author)


Simon & Schuster


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: xvii + 425 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Essay Review Pasachoff, Naomi (2006) The Many Facets of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 251-263). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Wellerstein, Alex
Kelly, Cynthia C.
Cioci, Vincenzo
Nolan, James L.
Alessandro Costazza
West, Nigel
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Manhattan Project
Science and war; science and the military
Physics
Biographies
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Berkeley (California, U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
Germany
New Mexico (U.S.)
Institutions
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S.)
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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