The Manhattan Project
Subtitle: big science and the atom bomb
By: Jeff Hughes.
Series: Revolutions in science; Revolutions in science (Columbia University. Press)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Manhattan Project (U.S.); Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-170).
Table of contents: title: Big science and the bomb; title: Long before the bomb: the origins of big science; title: Science, the military and industry: the great war and after; title: From fission to mission: the origins of the Manhattan project; title: Los Alamos: little science on a big scale?; title: Thin man becomes fat man: the plutonium implosion programme; title: From trinity to victory: making and using the first nuclear weapons; title: After the bomb: big science and national security; title: From big science to megascience: the age of the accelerators; title: The invention of 'big science': large-scale science as pathological science; title: Death in Texas: the end of megascience?; title: The myths of big science.