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
Language: English


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

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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
Gordin, Michael D.
Higuchi, Toshihiro
Bernstein, Barton J.
Bruno, Laura A.
Germuska, Pál
Goodman, Michael S.
Journals
Journal of Cold War Studies
British Journal for the History of Science
Cold War History
Comparative Technology Transfer and Society
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Stanford University Press
Cornell University Press
Basic Books
Enigma
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The MIT Press
Concepts
Cold War
Nuclear weapons; atomic weapons
Espionage
Science and war; science and the military
Military technology
Science and politics
People
Stalin, Joseph
Truman, Harry S.
Fermi, Enrico
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Rosenberg, Julius
Pontekorvo, Bruno
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Europe
Hungary
Russia
Institutions
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Partial Test Ban Treaty; Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963)
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell, England)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
KGB
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