Uranium wars
Subtitle: the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age
By: by Amir D. Aczel.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230613744
Subjects: Nuclear weapons -- Research -- History -- 20th century; Nuclear physics -- Research -- History -- 20th century; Nuclear energy -- Research -- History -- 20th century; Science and state -- History -- 20th century; Uranium as fuel -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Physics and Uranium; title: On the trail of the nucleus; title: The draw of radioactivity; title: The Meitner-Hahn discovery; title: Enrico fermi; title: The Rome experiments; title: The events of 1938; title: That Christmas; title: The Heisenberg menace; title: Chain reaction; title: Copenhagen; title: Truth; title: Building the bomb; title: Decision to use the bomb; title: The spying operation; title: The Cold War; title: Uranium's future.