Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Selected Readings on Atomic Energy
Author: U.S. Atomic Energy CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Selected Readings on Atomic Energy
Author: Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes; the Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 194
Author: Henry De Wolf SmythPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015421622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
Author: Henry De Wolf SmythPublisher:
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Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Canada Enters the Nuclear Age
Author: Atomic Energy of Canada LimitedPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773516014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The nuclear energy company has overseen the production of its own history, focusing on programs at its laboratories in Chalk River, Ontario, and Whiteshell, Manitoba between 1943 and 1985. The 16 scientists who wrote the narrative discuss the organization and operations of the laboratories, nuclear safety and radiation protection, radioisotopes, basic research, developing the CANDU reactor, managing the radioactive wastes, business development, and revenue generation. Canadian card order number: C97-900188-9. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission: The New World, 1939
Author: Richard G. HewlettPublisher:
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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Nature at War
Author: Thomas RobertsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419763
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--