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03850aam a22005898i 4500 001 3EF5ABB0DB9811EAAFE110FF96128E48 003 SILO 005 20200811010110 008 200215s2020 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020008293 020 $a 0393634973 020 $a 9780393634976 035 $a (OCoLC)1120096530 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-wa $a n-us-wa 050 00 $a QC773.A1 $b O47 2020 082 00 $a 623.4/51190973 $2 23 100 1 $a Olson, Steve, $d 1956- $e author. 245 14 $a The apocalypse factory : $b plutonium and the making of the atomic age / $c Steve Olson. 246 30 $a Plutonium and the making of the atomic age 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2020] 300 $a 336 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part 1. The road to Hanford -- The chain reaction -- Element 94 -- The decision -- The Met Lab -- Plutonium at last -- The demonstration -- Part 2. A factory in the desert -- The evicted -- The builders -- The B Reactor -- The T Plant -- Implosion -- Washington, D.C. -- Trinity -- Tinian Island -- Part 3. Under the mushroom cloud -- Nagasaki Medical College Hospital -- The Urakami Valley -- Nagasaki -- Part 4. Confronting Armageddon -- The Cold War -- Building the nuclear arsenal -- Peak production -- The reckoning -- Remembering -- Epilogue. 520 $a "A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to produce this dangerous material arose from the desert of eastern Washington State. Plutonium powered the bomb that dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (a target selected in almost arbitrary fashion). And the work of Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and hundreds of thousands of others-the physicists, engineers, laborers, and support staff of the Hanford Nuclear Facility-would remain the basis of the entire US nuclear arsenal during the Cold War and into the present. With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and human stories, Steve Olson offers this dramatic story of human achievement-and hubris-to a new generation"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Atomic bomb $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Plutonium industry $z Hanford $z Hanford $x History $y 20th century. 610 20 $a Hanford Engineer Works $x History. 650 0 $a Nuclear weapons $z United States $x History. 610 27 $a Hanford Engineer Works. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00714558 650 7 $a Atomic bomb. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00820568 650 7 $a Nuclear weapons. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01040971 650 7 $a Plutonium industry. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067462 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a Washington (State) $z Hanford. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01207440 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 10 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710051918.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015346.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117021007.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20210723105344.0 952 $l DYPD423 $d 20201222010339.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20201125164129.0 $m 623.4 OLS 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103014250.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201002012152.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20200827010051.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20200812034227.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3EF5ABB0DB9811EAAFE110FF96128E48 994 $a Z0 $b LJWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search