Adventures in the Atomic Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Adventures in the Atomic Age write by Glenn Theodore Seaborg. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Adventures in the Atomic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
Survival City
Survival City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Survival City write by Tom Vanderbilt. This book was released on 2002-04. Survival City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mixing first-person narrative of his travels around the U.S. in search of Cold War sites and objects with an extensive accumulation of historical facts, the author explores Cold War America's obsession with protecting itself from the nuclear threat through various forms of architectural structures, such as missile silos, fallout shelters, nuclear waste dumps, monoliths like the windowless PacBell building in Los Angeles, and countless motels and diners named "Atomic."
Atomic-Age Cthulhu
Atomic-Age Cthulhu - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Atomic-Age Cthulhu write by Brian Sammons. This book was released on 2013-02-04. Atomic-Age Cthulhu available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. [CALL OF CTHULHU ROLEPLAYING] ATOMIC-AGE CTHULHU brings Lovecraftian horror roleplaying into the post-war golden age. Here you find background and history that led to the development of the 1950s world, along with new skills and professions for your investigators. A number of Sinister Seeds are included to help you grow your own 1950s horrors, but seven complete adventures are ready for you to spring on your unsuspecting players.
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age write by Steve Olson. This book was released on 2020-07-28. The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb. It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs. In the desert of eastern Washington State, far from prying eyes, scientists Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and many thousands of others—the physicists, engineers, laborers, and support staff at the facility—manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and for the bombs in the current American nuclear arsenal, enabling the construction of weapons with the potential to end human civilization. With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and storytelling, Steve Olson asks why Hanford has been largely overlooked in histories of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Olson, who grew up just twenty miles from Hanford’s B Reactor, recounts how a small Washington town played host to some of the most influential scientists and engineers in American history as they sought to create the substance at the core of the most destructive weapons ever created. The Apocalypse Factory offers a new generation this dramatic story of human achievement and, ultimately, of lethal hubris.
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character write by Richard P. Feynman. This book was released on 2018-02-06. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest). Richard P. Feynman, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, thrived on outrageous adventures. In this lively work that “can shatter the stereotype of the stuffy scientist” (Detroit Free Press), Feynman recounts his experiences trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and cracking the uncrackable safes guarding the most deeply held nuclear secrets—and much more of an eyebrow-raising nature. In his stories, Feynman’s life shines through in all its eccentric glory—a combustible mixture of high intelligence, unlimited curiosity, and raging chutzpah. Included for this edition is a new introduction by Bill Gates.
