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The Manhattan Project : big science and the atom bomb
- Title
- The Manhattan Project : big science and the atom bomb / Jeff Hughes.
- Author
- Hughes, Jeff (Jeff A.)
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
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Details
- Description
- 170 p. : ill.; 19 cm.
- Series Statement
- Revolutions in science
- Uniform Title
- Revolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)
- Subject
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFC 06-59
- ISBN
- 0231131526 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- 0231131534 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2003051620
- OCLC
- 52203147
- Author
- Hughes, Jeff (Jeff A.)
- Title
- The Manhattan Project : big science and the atom bomb / Jeff Hughes.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
- Series
- Revolutions in scienceRevolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)
- Research Call Number
- JFC 06-59