The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb

Columbia University Press (2003)
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The Manhattan Project, the allies' project during the Second World War to build the atomic bomb, did not represent a radical break in the development of twentieth-century science but rather an acceleration of developments already underway, ...

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