Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb - Rilegato

Christman, Al

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ISBN 10: 1557501203 ISBN 13: 9781557501202

Casa editrice: Naval Inst Pr, 2014

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A flattering biography of the "Atomic Admiral," Deak Parsons, the modest ordance chief, weaponeer, and associate director at Los Alamos who turned the scientists' nuclear invention into a weapon, worked on the first postwar tests of the atomic bomb, and established post-war Navy policy in atomic matters. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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For most of his professional career, Al Christman was a writer and historian for the U.S. Navy. He is a former historian of Navy Laboratories. His books include Sailors, Scientists and Rockets and Grand Experiment at Inyokern, Naval Innovators: 1776 to 1900. As a combat engineer in the 99th Infantry Division, Christman saw action in World War II in the Battle of the Bulge, Remagen Bridge and the Ruhr Pocket. He was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and retired as major. He graduated from the University of Missouri with degrees in journalism and English and from California State Dominguez Hills in the humanities. Show More

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• Editore: Naval Inst Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1557501203
• ISBN 13: 9781557501202
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 305