Book ID: CBB001210044

The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics (2012)

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Turchetti, Simone (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 272 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Review Calver, Neil (2013) Review of "The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 173-174). unapi

Review Walker, Mark (2013) Review of "The Pontecorvo Affair: A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 180-181). unapi

Essay Review Monaldi, Daniela (2013) Professor Pontecorvo, Concerned Scientist or Notorious Spy?. Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 599-602). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Higuchi, Toshihiro
Liu, Jinyan
Zhang, Baichun
Fang Wang
Close, Frank E.
Wellerstein, Alex
Journals
Journal of Cold War Studies
Representations
Osteuropa
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Journal of Contemporary History
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Yale University Press
University of Nevada Press
The MIT Press
Doubleday
Basic Books
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Espionage
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Technology
People
Pontekorvo, Bruno
Truman, Harry S.
Stalin, Joseph
Rosenberg, Julius
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Fermi, Enrico
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
People's Republic of China
Russia
Hungary
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
KGB
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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