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Author | : Alex Wellerstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2021-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022602038X |
Download Restricted Data Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--
Author | : Louis B. Thoreson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Prospecting |
ISBN | : |
Download One Man's Uranium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Tom Zoellner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780670020645 |
Download Uranium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the powerful mineral element explores its role as a virtually limitless energy source, its controversial applications as a healing tool and weapon, and the ways in which its reputation has been used to promote war agendas in the middle east.
Author | : Andrew Gross |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466892188 |
Download The One Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“As moving as it is gripping. A winner on all fronts.”—Booklist (starred review) “Heart-pounding...This is Gross’s best work yet, with his heart and soul imprinted on every page.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Poland. 1944. Alfred Mendl and his family are brought on a crowded train to a Nazi concentration camp after being caught trying to flee Paris with forged papers. His family is torn away from him on arrival, his life’s work burned before his eyes. To the guards, he is just another prisoner, but in fact Mendl—a renowned physicist—holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. And the other is already at work for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand miles away, in Washington, DC, Intelligence lieutenant Nathan Blum routinely decodes messages from occupied Poland. Having escaped the Krakow ghetto as a teenager after the Nazis executed his family, Nathan longs to do more for his new country in the war. But never did he expect the proposal he receives from “Wild” Bill Donovan, head of the OSS: to sneak into the most guarded place on earth, a living hell, on a mission to find and escape with one man, the one man the Allies believe can ensure them victory in the war. Bursting with compelling characters and tense story lines, this historical thriller from New York Times bestseller Andrew Gross is a deeply affecting, unputdownable series of twists and turns through a landscape at times horrifyingly familiar but still completely new and compelling.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 623 |
Release | : 1988-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309037891 |
Download Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book describes hazards from radon progeny and other alpha-emitters that humans may inhale or ingest from their environment. In their analysis, the authors summarize in one document clinical and epidemiological evidence, the results of animal studies, research on alpha-particle damage at the cellular level, metabolic pathways for internal alpha-emitters, dosimetry and microdosimetry of radionuclides deposited in specific tissues, and the chemical toxicity of some low-specific-activity alpha-emitters. Techniques for estimating the risks to humans posed by radon and other internally deposited alpha-emitters are offered, along with a discussion of formulas, models, methods, and the level of uncertainty inherent in the risk estimates.
Author | : Karl Ziegler Morgan |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806131221 |
Download The Angry Genie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A physicist with the Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge National Laboratory recounts harrowing tales of radiation accidents and near-disasters, revealing the actual and potential consequences of the clumsiness, recklessness, and carelessness of fallible human beings. 56 illustrations.
Author | : Peter H. Eichstaedt |
Publisher | : Museum of NM Press/Red Crane Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download If You Poison Us Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The untold story of the Native Americans who were the patriotic but unwitting victims of America's quest for nuclear superiority during the Cold War." Stewart L. Udall, former Secretary of the Interior (from the back cover).
Author | : Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451617534 |
Download The Girls of Atomic City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Author | : Kristen Iversen |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307955656 |
Download Full Body Burden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
Author | : Leona Marshall Libby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Nuclear energy |
ISBN | : |
Download The Uranium People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The youngest and only woman member of the original team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project recounts the scientific, personal, and ethical problems encountered by those who built the first nuclear reactor.