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| Autore principale: | Hughes, Jeff.
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| Titolo: | The Manhattan project : big science and the atom bomb / Jeff Hughes. |
| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : Icon books, 2003. |
| Descrizione fisica: | VI, 170 p. : ill. ; 20 cm |
| Serie: | Revolutions in science |
| Contiene: | Indice: List of illustrations. Acknowledgements and about the author. 1. Introduction: big science and the bomb 2. Long before the bomb: the origins of big science 3. Science, the military and industry: the great war and after 4. From fission to mission: the origins of the Manhattan project 5. Los Alamos: little science on a big scale? 6. Thin man becomes fat man: the plutonium implosion programme 7. From trinity to victory: making and using the first nuclear weapons 8. After the bomb: big science and national security 9. From big science to megascience: the age of the accelerators 10. The invention of big science: large-scale science as pathological science 11. Death in Texas: the end of megascience? 12. Conclusion: the myths of big science. Further reading |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| ISBN: | 1840465042 |
| Discipline: | Politica e scienza--Studi. Ingegneria militare--Studi. |
| Luoghi: | Stati Uniti. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XX. |
| Correlato a: |  Dennis, Michael Aaron. Recensione]. |
| Collocazione: | LS 14277 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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