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Nuclear Iran / Jeremy Bernstein.

Title
Nuclear Iran / Jeremy Bernstein.
Author
Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description
209 pages : illustrations, map; 19 cm
Summary
This succinct book is timely reading for anyone who wishes to understand the maze of science and secrecy at the heart of Iran's nuclear ambitions. Writing for the general reader, Jeremy Bernstein draws on his knowledge as a physicist to elucidate the scientific principles and technical hurdles involved in creating nuclear reactors and bombs.
Subject
  • Centrifuges > Iran > History
  • Nuclear reactors > Iran
  • Uranium > Isotopes
  • Plutonium > Isotopes
  • Nuclear weapons > Iran
  • Centrifuges
  • Nuclear reactors
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Plutonium > Isotopes
  • Uranium > Isotopes
  • Iran
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Uranium. Round and round -- Frisch, Peierls, and Dirac -- Unintended consequences -- God the merciful, the compassionate -- Plutonium. Reactors -- The delta phase -- Dual use. Unintended consequences redux -- Among the Ayatollahs -- Breakout.
ISBN
  • 9780674417083 (alk. paper)
  • 0674417089 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2014010217
OCLC
875999995
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library