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02905aam a2200421 i 4500 001 5B2A9128F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 003 SILO 005 20181204010734 008 180530t20182018njua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018018462 020 $a 9813235551 020 $a 9789813235557 035 $a (OCoLC)1018462653 040 $a OU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d SINLB $d DLC $d UKMGB $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-ur--- 050 00 $a QC789.2 S65 P66 2018 082 00 $a 355.8/25119094709045 $2 23 100 1 $a Pondrom, Lee G., $d 1933- $e author. 245 14 $a The Soviet atomic project : $b how the Soviet Union obtained the atomic bomb / $c Lee G. Pondrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. 264 1 $a [Hackensack,] New Jersey : $b World Scientific, $c [2018] 300 $a xxv, 758 pages : $b illustrations (some color), color maps ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The book describes the lives of the people who gave Stalin his weapon -- scientists, engineers, managers, and prisoners during the early post war years from 1945-1953. Many anecdotes and vicissitudes of life at that time in the Soviet Union accompany considerable technical information regarding the solutions to formidable problems of nuclear weapons development. The contents should interest the reader who wants to learn more about this part of the history and politics in 20th century physics. The prevention of nuclear proliferation is a topic of current interest, and the procedure followed by the Soviet Union as described in this book will help us understand the complexities involved"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Wartime Soviet industry -- Development of nuclear physics before the discovery of fission -- Discovery of fission of uranium -- Soviet Union and Stalin's terror 1937-1939 -- Soviet Union and nuclear research 1934-1942 -- The Manhattan Project creates Los Alamos -- Soviet Union creates laboratory #2 -- Soviet espionage and the atomic project -- Players in the drama -- Stalin, Beria, and Kurchatov -- Industrial plants move to the Urals -- Soviet Union creates Arzamas-16 -- Uranium and plutonium -- German scientists and the Soviet Project -- Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Range. 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $z Soviet Union $x History. 650 0 $a Nuclear physics $x History. $z Soviet Union $x History. 650 0 $a Scientists $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Engineers $z Soviet Union. 650 0 $a Nuclear industry $z Soviet Union $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $z Soviet Union $y 20th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702020157.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B2A9128F79311E8BA923B1497128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search