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Neutron's Long Shadow: Legacies of Nuclear Explosives Production in the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
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Neutron's Long Shadow: Legacies of Nuclear Explosives Production in the Manhattan Project (Hardcover)
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The intellectual adventure of developing the atomic bomb at Los
Alamos has been well documented, but the fact is that 90% of the
Manhattan Project expenditures went to produce the exotic nuclear
explosive materials required. That is the story told here, a story
of the brilliant harnessing of American industry to build a
coordinated network of huge production plants using technology that
was being developed even as the plants themselves were rising. It
is the story of multiple, complex production methods being pursued
simultaneously without knowing any of them would ultimately work, a
story of daring gambles and their ultimate redemption. It is the
story of the frantic building of subsequent, larger plants that
were worked to the limits of their safe operation during the Cold
War arms race. This is a story told by the author in historical
narrative and new high-resolution photographs of fast-disappearing
relics.
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