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The Greatest Scientific Gamble : A Story of Impossible Odds, Rival Scientists, and the Atomic Bomb
The Greatest Scientific Gamble : A Story of Impossible Odds, Rival Scientists, and the Atomic Bomb
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Author(s): Joseloff, Michael
ISBN No.: 9781611865592
Pages: 284
Year: 202603
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 72.12
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

1. A Small Global Community 2. A Modern Alchemist 3. Nobel Prize 4. Nuclear Fission 5. News of Nuclear Fission Rocks Scientific World 6. Bohr''s Discovery 7. Heisenberg in Michigan 8.


Lightning Warfare 9. A Second Route to an Atomic Bomb 10. The Battle of Britain 11. Enrico and Laura in America 12. Harnessing Atomic Energy 13. Heavy Water 14. Life in Leipzig and Berlin 15. The Manhattan Project 16.


A Meeting of Weapons Developers 17. General Leslie Groves 18. General Groves Meets Robert Oppenheimer 19. Operation Freshman 20. Chicago 21. SS Mont-Blanc 22. Construction 23. Heavy Water II 24.


Los Alamos 25. Nothing but Theory 26. Dumb Luck 27. Hunting Heisenberg 28. Peenemünde 29. Hamburg 30. The Kellex Company Is Hiring 31. Alsos 32.


Heavy Water III 33. "Nicholas Baker" at Los Alamos 34. Glenn Seaborg 35. Manufacturing Problems 36. Norsk Hydro Ships Heavy Water 37. OSS Kidnap Plot 38. Underground Bunker 39. Plutonium Problem 40.


A Secret Meeting 41. Wunderwaffen 42. Darkest Hours 43. Alsos in Paris 44. Hanford 45. Strasbourg Liberated 46. Restricted Area 47. Battle of the Bulge 48.


Battle of the Bulge Aftershocks 49. The Last Experiment 50. Diebner''s Lab Captured 51. Heisenberg''s Final Experiment 52. The Griffin 53. Hunting Heisenberg II 54. Critical Mass 55. A Call from the Secretary of War 56.


Heisenberg on the Run 57. The Hunt Is Over 58. USAAF Attack on Tokyo 59. Critical Mass II 60. Preparing for Invasion 61. Trinity 62. Farm Hall 63. Hiroshima 64.


Farm Hall Gets the News 65. Victory 66. Radiation Poisoning Reported 67. Trinity Fallout.


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