| Author: | Baggott, Jim | Place: | New York |
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| Publisher: | Pegasus Books: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co. | Year: | 2010 | Page: | 576 |
Baggott, Jim. Atomic: the first war of physics and the secret history of the atomic bomb, 1939-49 . New York, Pegasus Books: Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. Pp. 576
History and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering
The history of science and technology to build the first atomic weapons from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of 'Joe-1,’ August 1949's first Soviet atomic bomb test with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs.