12 Seconds of Silence : how a Team of Inventors, Tinkerers, and Spies Took Down a Nazi Superweapon
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Call Number: 623.4 Ho, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / World War II / Holmes, Jamie
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Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemünde -- Don't Slow Down -- Prying Eyes -- Escalation -- Part II: War -- Ready or Not -- No Alibis -- Dr. Jones's Raid -- The Garage -- Three Runs, Three Hits -- Into the Fleet -- New Tricks -- Cherry Stone -- A London Fuse -- AMNIARIX -- Part III: Victory -- Ski Shapes -- Ranch Country -- Chemical Boys -- Things Carried -- Wachtel is Hiding -- A Comet Gone Wrong -- "Turkey Shoot" -- Ack Ack Girls -- A Cold Winter -- Tug of War -- Downtime.
"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781328460127
1328460126
9780358309512
0358309514
9780358313144
0358313147
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Office of Scientific Research and Development -- History.
Johns Hopkins University. -- Applied Physics Laboratory -- History.
Proximity fuzes -- Design and construction.
World War, 1939-1945.
Military weapons -- History.
Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.