Before the fallout : from Marie Curie to Hiroshima /
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New York :
Walker & Co.,
c2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Brilliant in the darkness
- Rabbit from Antipodes
- Forces of nature
- Make physics boom
- Days of alchemy
- Persecution and purge
- Wonderful findings
- We may sleep fairly comfortably in our beds
- Cold room in Birmingham
- Maud Ray Kent
- Hitler's success could depend on it
- He said "bomb" in no uncertain terms
- We'll wipe the Japs out of the maps
- V.B. ok
- Best coup
- Beautiful and savage country
- Mr. Baker
- Heavy water
- Boon or disaster?
- This thing is going to be very big
- Germany had no atomic bomb
- Profound psychological impression
- Elongated trash can with fins
- It's Hiroshima
- Mother will not die
- New fact in the world's power politics
- Epilogue
- Notes and sources
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
