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Author Hughes, Jeff (Jeff A.)

Title The Manhattan Project : big science and the atom bomb / Jeff Hughes.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  355.82 H893M    Check Shelf
Description 170 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Series Revolutions in science
Revolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)
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.
Subject Manhattan Project (U.S.)
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0231131526 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0231131534 paperback
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