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Uranium Wars The Scientific Rivalry That Created the Nuclear Age

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ISBN-10: 0230103359

ISBN-13: 9780230103351

Edition: 2010

Authors: Amir D. Aczel

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List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Amir D. Aczel, Ph.D., his work has been translated into Turkish, Hebrew, French, German, italian, Chinese and Spanish. An internationally known mathematician, he lives in the Boston area.

Acknowledgments
Preface
Cast of Characters
A Note on Nomenclature
Glossary of Atomic Terms
Introduction: The Blinding Light
Physics and Uranium
On the Trail of the Nucleus
Lise Meitner
The Meitner-Hahn Discovery
Enrico Fermi
The Rome Experiments
The Events of 1938
Christmas 1938
The Heisenberg Menace
Chain Reaction
The Nazi Nuclear Machine
Copenhagen
The Moment of Truth
Building the Bomb
The Decision to Use the Bomb
Evidence from a Spying Operation
The Cold War
Uranium's Future
Notes
References
Index