Before the Fall-Out. from Marie Curie to Hiroshima - the Human Chain Reaction That Led to the Atom Bomb
by Preston Diana
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- ISBN 13
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London, Doubleday, 2005. Fine. Hardcover. 0385604386 . Frst edition 8vo 438 pages illustrated with black & white and colour photographs. Fine black cloth hard back with a fine unclipped dust jacket. No inscriptions. Spanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it. And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists from many different nations transmuted into a secretive wartime race for the ultimate weapon of mass destruction - the atom bomb. Diana Preston reveals how individuals responded to events - from Allied scientists debating the morality of deploying the bomb, to Japanese civilians who became its first victims, and to a German chemist working on the Nazi bomb project while concealing a Jewish pianist in his Berlin apartment. .
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- Title
- Before the Fall-Out. from Marie Curie to Hiroshima - the Human Chain Reaction That Led to the Atom Bomb
- Author
- Preston Diana
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385604386
- ISBN 13
- 9780385604383
- Publisher
- London, Doubleday, 2005
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- September 13, 2005
- Keywords
- 0385604386, Atomic Weapons, Los Alamos
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