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Before the fallout : from Marie Curie to Hiroshima / Diana Preston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Berkley Books, 2006.Edition: Berkley trade pbk. edDescription: xiv, 400 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0425207897 (pbk.)
  • 9780425207895 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/3 22
LOC classification:
  • Q175.35 P74 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Prologue -- 1. "Brilliant in the darkness" -- 2. A rabbit from the antipodes -- 3. Forces of nature -- 4. "Make physics boom" -- 5. Days of alchemy -- 6. Persecution and purge -- 7. "Wonderful findings" -- 8. "We may sleep fairly comfortably in our beds" -- 9. A cold room in Birmingham -- 10. Maud Ray Kent -- 11. "Hitler's success could depend on it" -- 12. "He said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms" -- 13. "We'll wipe the Japs out of the maps" -- 14. "V. B. OK" -- 15. "The best coup" -- 16. Beautiful and savage country -- 17. "Mr. Baker" -- 18. Heavy water -- 19. Boon or disaster? -- 20. "This thing is going to be very big" -- 21. "Germany had no atomic bomb" -- 22. "A profound psychological impression" -- 23. "An elongated trash can with fins" -- 24. "It's Hiroshima" -- 25. "Mother will not die" -- 26. "A new fact in the world's power politics" -- Epilogue -- Notes and sources -- Glossary.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) Q175.35 P74 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 1 Available 00000054414

Originally published: New York : Walker & Co., c2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-379) and index.

Prologue -- 1. "Brilliant in the darkness" -- 2. A rabbit from the antipodes -- 3. Forces of nature -- 4. "Make physics boom" -- 5. Days of alchemy -- 6. Persecution and purge -- 7. "Wonderful findings" -- 8. "We may sleep fairly comfortably in our beds" -- 9. A cold room in Birmingham -- 10. Maud Ray Kent -- 11. "Hitler's success could depend on it" -- 12. "He said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms" -- 13. "We'll wipe the Japs out of the maps" -- 14. "V. B. OK" -- 15. "The best coup" -- 16. Beautiful and savage country -- 17. "Mr. Baker" -- 18. Heavy water -- 19. Boon or disaster? -- 20. "This thing is going to be very big" -- 21. "Germany had no atomic bomb" -- 22. "A profound psychological impression" -- 23. "An elongated trash can with fins" -- 24. "It's Hiroshima" -- 25. "Mother will not die" -- 26. "A new fact in the world's power politics" -- Epilogue -- Notes and sources -- Glossary.

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