The Uranium Club
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The Uranium Club
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Author : Miriam E Hiebert
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
The Uranium Club written by Miriam E Hiebert and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Science categories.
"Much as Marcel Proust spun out a lifetime of memories from the taste of a madeleine, The Uranium Club spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium. It's a riveting tale of competing German ambitions and arrogant mistakes, a nonfiction thriller tracking teams of American scientists as they race to prevent Hitler from beating the United States to the atomic bomb." —Richard Rhodes, author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried—and failed—to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes—two of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions. Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany's nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission's infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known—and hugely consequential—chapter of history. The cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer.
Hitler S Uranium Club
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Author : Jeremy Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-09
Hitler S Uranium Club written by Jeremy Bernstein and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-09 with History categories.
From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany's greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6, that the Allies had succeeded in their own efforts to create such a weapon. But what they did not know was that many of their meetings and private conversations were being monitored and recorded by British agents. This book contains the complete collection of transcripts that were made from these secret recordings, providing an unprecedented view of how the German scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, thought and spoke about their roles during the war.
Hitler S Uranium Club
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Author : Jeremy Bernstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Hitler S Uranium Club written by Jeremy Bernstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For students of World War II or the atomic age, or anyone fascinated by the intertwining of science and politics, Hitler's Uranium Club provides an opportunity rare in recorded history: the chance to eavesdrop on pivotal figures in history as they complete one era, come to terms with it, and prepare their strategy for the next.
Uranium Club
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Author : Shaun Walker
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-12-19
Uranium Club written by Shaun Walker and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-19 with categories.
In 1987 the World came to an end. In a war that lasted only three hours, the Reich of America was destroyed in an atomic fire-storm. As the three atomic powers, the USSR, the Third Reich and the Japanese Empire burn, Malcolm and his family prepare for the coming nuclear winter and the new apocalyptic world that awaits them. The end of the world is just the beginning of their survival. Split into two parts, part one follows the story of the impending war between the Soviets and the Third Reich and Malcolm's scramble for survival.
Club Uranium
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Author : Stéphane Przybylski
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Club Uranium written by Stéphane Przybylski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with categories.
The Uranium People
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Author : Leona Marshall Libby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Uranium People written by Leona Marshall Libby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.
The Race For The Atom Bomb
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Author : JOHN. HARTE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-29
The Race For The Atom Bomb written by JOHN. HARTE and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-29 with categories.
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
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Author : Allan S. Krass
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-20
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation written by Allan S. Krass and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-20 with Political Science categories.
Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Operation Big
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Author : Colin Brown
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Operation Big written by Colin Brown and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with History categories.
The Cambridgeshire country house at the centre of a secret mission to stop Hitler's A-Bomb
Uranium
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Author : Tom Zoellner
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-02-23
Uranium written by Tom Zoellner and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Science categories.
The astonishing biography of a mineral that can sustain our world- or destroy it Uranium occurs naturally in the earth's crust-yet holds the power to end all life on the planet. This is its fundamental paradox, and its story is a fascinating window into the valor, greed, genius, and folly of humanity. A problem for miners in the Middle Ages, an inspiration to novelists and a boon to medicine, a devastating weapon at the end of World War II, and eventually a polluter, killer, excuse for war with Iraq, potential deliverer of Armageddon and a possible last defense against global warming-Uranium is the riveting story of the most powerful element on earth, and one which will shape our future, for better or worse.