Book ID: CBB001230726

Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element (2007)

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Bernstein, Jeremy (Author)


Joseph Henry Press


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: x + 194 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Hamblin, Jacob Darwin (2011) Review of "Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element". Technology and Culture (p. 415). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Reed, B. Cameron
Baggott, Jim
Banco, Lindsey Michael
Bernstein, Jeremy
Byrne, Peter
Cassidy, David C.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Environmental History
Klio
Traverse
Publishers
Bellevue Literary Press
Oxford University Press
Pegasus Books
Prometheus Books
RKhGI
Steerforth Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Biographies
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Everett, Hugh, III
Fermi, Enrico
Franck, James
Fuchs, Klaus
Groves, Leslie R.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Soviet Union
Germany
Great Britain
Russia
Switzerland
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
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