Now it can be Told : : the Story of the Manhattan Project
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harper, 1962.
Includes index.
pt. 1. The beginnings of the Med -- First steps -- The uranium ore supply -- The plutonium project -- Los Alamos, I -- Hanford, I -- Hanford, II -- Oak Ridge -- Negotiations with the British -- Security arrangements and press censorship -- Los Alamos, II -- The combined development trust -- Military intelligence, Alsos I, Italy -- A serious military problem -- Military intelligence, Alsos II, France -- The problem of the French scientists -- Military intelligence, Alsos III, Germany -- pt. 2. Training the air unit -- Choosing the target -- Tinian -- Alamogordo -- Opertaional plans -- Hiroshima -- The Germans hear the news -- Nagasaki -- pt. 3. The Med and Congress -- The destruction of the Japanese cyclotrons -- Transition period -- The AEC -- Postwar developments -- A final word.
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PUBLISHED
[New York, N.Y.] : Da Capo Press, [1983], ©1962.
Year Published: 1962
Description: xviii, 464 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0306801892
9780306801891
SUBJECTS
Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- History.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.