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
Eymann, Richard C.
Pritikin, Trisha T.
Olson, Steve
Wellerstein, Alex
Vizgin, Vladimir P.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Traverse
Klio
Environmental History
Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Publishers
W. W. Norton & Co.
Viking
Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik
University Press of Kansas
University of Chicago Press
Steerforth Press
Concepts
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Physics
Science and war; science and the military
Science and politics
Manhattan Project
People
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Von Neumann, John
Teller, Edward
Seaborg, Glenn T.
Heisenberg, Werner
Groves, Leslie R.
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Soviet Union
Ohio (U.S.)
Washington (state, U.S.)
Switzerland
Institutions
Hanford Nuclear Site (Washington)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie
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