The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium And Making Of Atomic Age Steve Olson Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style

It Began With Plutonium The First Element Ever Manufactured In Quantity By Humans Fearing That Germans Would Be To Weaponise Atom United States Marshalled Brilliant Minds And Seemingly Inexhaustible Bodies Find A Way Create Nuclear Chain Reaction Of Inconceivable Explosive Power Matter Months Hanford Facility Was Built Produce Enigmatic Deadly New Material Fuel Atomic Bombs Desert Eastern Washington State Far From Prying Eyes Scientists Glenn Seaborg Enrico Fermi Thousands Others—The Physicists Engineers Labourers Support Staff At Facility—Manufactured For Bomb Dropped On Nagasaki Current American Arsenal Enabling Construction Weapons Potential End Human Civilisation His Characteristic Blend Scientific Clarity Storytelling Steve Olson Asks Why Has Been Largely Overlooked Histories Manhattan Project Cold War Who Grew Up Just Twenty Miles Hanford’s B Reactor Recounts How Small Town Played Host Some Most Influential History As They Sought Substance Core Destructive Created Apocalypse Factory Offers Generation This Dramatic Story Achievement Ultimately Lethal Hubris Σελίδες: 352 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0104 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm