Atomic adventures secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science
With enthusiasm and witty intelligence, Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far-flung islands and finds trees that were exposed to active fission--which then changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion does n...
| Main Author: | Mahaffey, James A. (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note: stories told at night around the glow of the reactor
- Introduction: The curious case of the n-rays, a dead end for all times
- Cry for me, Argentina
- AFP-67 in the Dawson Forest
- Inside cold fusion
- Good news and bad news
- The lost expedition to Mars
- The chic-4 revolution
- Japan's atomic bomb project
- The criminal use of nuclear disintegration
- The threat of the dirty bomb
- A bridge to the stars
- Conclusions.