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The apocalypse factory plutonium and the making of the atomic age

"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with...

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Main Author: Olson, Steve, 1956- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
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Atomic bomb > United States > History > 20th century.
Plutonium industry > Washington (State) > Hanford > History > 20th century.
Nuclear weapons > United States > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. The road to Hanford
  • The chain reaction
  • Element 94
  • The decision
  • The Met Lab
  • Plutonium at last
  • The demonstration
  • Part 2. A factory in the desert
  • The evicted
  • The builders
  • The B Reactor
  • The T Plant
  • Implosion
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Trinity
  • Tinian Island
  • Part 3. Under the mushroom cloud
  • Nagasaki Medical College Hospital
  • The Urakami Valley
  • Nagasaki
  • Part 4. Confronting Armageddon
  • The Cold War
  • Building the nuclear arsenal
  • Peak production
  • The reckoning
  • Remembering
  • Epilogue.

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