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Atomic Quest: A Personal Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Arthur Holly Compton
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-09 - Publisher: Plunkett Lake Press

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As director of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago, Arthur Holly Compton was a major participant in the research,
Nuclear Apartheid
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Shane J. Maddock
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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After World War II, an atomic hierarchy emerged in the noncommunist world. Washington was at the top, followed over time by its NATO allies and then Israel, wit
Atomic Testing in Mississippi
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: David Allen Burke
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-05 - Publisher: LSU Press

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In Atomic Testing in Mississippi, David Allen Burke illuminates the nearly forgotten history of America's only nuclear detonations east of the Mississippi River
Atomic Quest
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Arthur Holly Compton
Categories: Atomic bomb
Type: BOOK - Published: 1956 - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

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Account of the development and use of atomic energy in America for peace and war.
The Atomic West
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Bruce W. Hevly
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equal