ISBN:

• 9780230613744
• 0230613748

Edition: First edition.

Description: 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index.

Contents:

• Physics and uranium
• On the trail of the nucleus
• Lisa Meitner
• The Meitner-Hahn discovery
• Enrico Fermi
• The Rome experiments
• The events of 1938
• Christmas 1938
• The Heisenberg menace
• Chain reaction
• The Nazi nuclear machine
• Copenhagen
• The moment of truth
• Building the bomb
• The decision to use the bomb
• Evidence from a spying operation
• The Cold War
• Uranium's future.

LCCN: 2009007276

Control Number: 375957

Subjects:

• Nuclear energy -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
• Nuclear physics -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
• Nuclear weapons -- Research -- History -- 20th century.
• Science and state -- History -- 20th century.
• Uranium as fuel -- History -- 20th century.