Article ID: CBB001250050

The End of Manhattan: How the Gas Centrifuge Changed the Quest for Nuclear Weapons (2012)

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Description Looks at the creation of the first successful centrifuge by German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union.


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Authors & Contributors
Reed, B. Cameron
Adamson, Matthew
Baracca, Angelo
Cowan, G. A.
Hu, Hua-kai
Kauffman, George B.
Journals
Physics in Perspective
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Chemical Heritage
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
Cold War History
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Publishers
Basic Books
Enigma
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Rutgers University Press
University of New Mexico Press
Concepts
Manhattan Project
Nuclear chemistry
Uranium
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Science and war; science and the military
Biographies
People
Cowan, George A.
Fermi, Enrico
Rosenberg, Julius
Smyth, Charles Phelps
Kamen, Martin David
Pontekorvo, Bruno
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Canada
China
Institutions
Rossiiskaia Akademiia Nauk
KGB
United States War Department
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