Book ID: CBB000772752

Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War (2007)

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Gordin, Michael D. (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xv + 209 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Dorn, Harold (2008) Review of "Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War". Technology and Culture (p. 812). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Badash, Lawrence
Ball, Philip
Baracca, Angelo
Bernstein, Jeremy
Drago, Antonino
Frayn, Michael
Journals
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage
Diplomatic History
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Cambridge University Press
Allen Lane
Guaraldi
Lexington Books
Praeger
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
World War II
Physics
Technology and war; technology and the military
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
People
Heisenberg, Werner
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Debye, Peter Joseph William
Fermi, Enrico
Franck, James
Hitler, Adolf
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
Japan
Canada
Finland
Hiroshima City (Japan)
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Physik, Berlin
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Instituten
United States War Department
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