11 records matched your query       

Author:

Aczel, Amir D.

Title:

Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age / Amir D. Aczel.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Nuclear weapons--History--History--20th century.
Nuclear physics--History--History--20th century.
Nuclear energy--History--History--20th century.
Science and state--History--20th century.
Uranium as fuel--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Physics and uranium -- On the trail of the nucleus -- Lisa Meitner -- The Meitner-Hahn discovery -- Enrico Fermi -- The Rome experiments -- The events of 1938 -- Christmas 1938 -- The Heisenberg menace -- Chain reaction -- The Nazi nuclear machine -- Copenhagen -- The moment of truth -- Building the bomb -- The decision to use the bomb -- Evidence from a spying operation -- The Cold War -- Uranium's future.

ISBN:

0230613748
9780230613744

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311074963

LCCN:

2009007276

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)