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 | #1657051 in Books |  2003-10-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.34 x.59 x4.76l,.49 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Solid|By R. Albin|A very concise and adequate discussion of the historic roots and nature of "Big Science." The latter is exemplified by increasingly large accelerators used in high energy physics, demanding not only enormously expensive and centralized equipment but also enormous teams of scientists and engineers. Hughes provides a nice discussion of the Manhatten Project as|From Booklist|To set the parameters of his analysis of the Manhattan Project, Hughes homes in on two pictures: one of physicist Ernest Rutherford at his table-top particle-detecting apparatus, and another of a bui

Launched in 1942, the Manhattan Project was a well-funded, secret effort by the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada to develop an atomic bomb before the Nazis. The results―the bombs named "Little Boy" and "Fat Man"―were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945.

A vast state within a state, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people and cost the United States and its allies 2 billion dollars, but its contribution to science as a prestigi...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science)   |  Jeff Hughes. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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