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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
170

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Atomic bomb, History, Manhattan Project (U.S.), Manhattan project (u.s.), Kernwaffe, Weltkrieg, Nachkriegszeit, Forschungsförderung, Wissenschaftspolitik, Manhattan Project (U.S.)., Historymanhattan project (u.s.), Atomic bomb--history, Atomic bomb--united states--history, Qc773.3.u5 h84 2002, 355.825119097309044
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The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science)
September 2003, Columbia University Press
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The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science.)
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The Manhattan Project: big science and the atom bomb
2002, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Big science and the bomb
Long before the bomb: the origins of big science
Science, the military and industry: the great war and after
From fission to mission: the origins of the Manhattan project
Los Alamos: little science on a big scale?
Thin man becomes fat man: the plutonium implosion programme
From trinity to victory: making and using the first nuclear weapons
After the bomb: big science and national security
From big science to megascience: the age of the accelerators
The invention of 'big science': large-scale science as pathological science
Death in Texas: the end of megascience?
The myths of big science.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-170).

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Revolutions in science, Revolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)

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Library of Congress
QC773.3.U5 H84 2002, QC773.3.U5H84 2003

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170 p. :
Number of pages
170

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OL22859420M
Internet Archive
manhattanproject0000hugh_p5d4
ISBN 10
0231131526
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2003051620
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89820
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