Before The Fallout
Subtitle: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: April 1, 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780802714459
Subjects: Nuclear Physics; Military - Nuclear Warfare; History; Social aspects; Military; Science; Moral and ethical aspects; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Atomic bomb
First sentence: ON 6 AUGUST 1945, the Christian Feast of the Transfiguration, the Festival of Light, a young mother, Futaba Kitayama, looked up to see "an airplane as pretty as a silver treasure flying from East to West in the cloudless pure blue sky."
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Brilliant in the darkness; title: A rabbit from Antipodes; title: Forces of nature; title: Make physics boom; title: Days of alchemy; title: Persecution and purge; title: Wonderful findings; title: We may sleep fairly comfortably in our beds; title: A cold room in Birmingham; title: Maud Ray Kent; title: Hitler's success could depend on it; title: He said "bomb" in no uncertain terms; title: We'll wipe the Japs out of the maps; title: V.B. OK; title: The best coup; title: Beautiful and savage country; title: Mr. Baker; title: Heavy water; title: Boon or disaster?; title: This thing is going to be very big; title: Germany had no atomic bomb; title: A profound psychological impression; title: An elongated trash can with fins; title: It's Hiroshima; title: Mother will not die; title: A new fact in the world's power politics; title: Epilogue; title: Notes and sources; title: Glossary; title: Bibliography