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Reed, Bruce Cameron

 
9780750327893: Atomic Bomb: The Story of the Manhattan Project: How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical game-changer
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ISBN 10: 0750327898 ISBN 13: 9780750327893
Casa editrice: Morgan & Claypool, 2015

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This book gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the Manhattan Project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the Project was organized, the daunting challenges faced and overcome, the dramatic Trinity test carried out in the desert of southern New Mexico in July, 1945, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Editore
Morgan & Claypool
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0750327898
ISBN 13 
9780750327893
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
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