Book ID: CBB001033687

The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939--1949 (2010)

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Baggott, Jim (Author)


Pegasus Books


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 576 pp.;
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Bini, Elisabetta
Vezzosi, Elisabetta
Konta, Carla
West, Nigel
Wellerstein, Alex
Weiner, Sharon K.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Traverse
Journal of Contemporary History
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Publishers
Viella
Georgetown University
Viking
University of Chicago Press
The MIT Press
Steerforth Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Science and politics
Cold War
Physics
People
Heisenberg, Werner
Von Neumann, John
Teller, Edward
Supek, Ivan
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Groves, Leslie R.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
Great Britain
England
Switzerland
Institutions
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
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