The Manhattan Project Encyclopedia - A Concise Guide to the People, Places, Concepts, Devices and Events of the Development of the Atomic Bomb

This book provides a guide to the people, places, artifacts, events, terminology, scientific concepts, groups, critical documents, and code phrases associated with the Manhattan Project. It is of interest to all readers/researchers (students, journalists, policy-makers, specialist and non-specialist instructors and scientists) who need to rapidly access authoritative, self-contained definitions/descriptions of such items and references to authoritative sources. The individual entries are extensively cross-referenced.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. A Brief Overview of the Manhattan Project.- Chapter 2. Manhattan Project Encyclopedia.- Chapter 3. Chronology.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bruce Cameron Reed
• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9783031743245
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3174324-5
• Seiten: 250
• Illustration: XI, 250 p. 135 illus., 18 illus. in color.
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Physik, Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Biografien: Wissenschaft, Technologie und Medizin, Atom- und Molekularphysik, Atomic Bomb, Los Alamos, Weapons, Nuclear physics, Nuclear weapons, History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of Physics and Astronomy, Manhattan Project, Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers, Nuclear Fission