Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy - 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 Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy write by Per F Dahl. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid to harness atomic energy primarily as a source of electric power; its acute shortage was a factor in Japan's decision not to pursue seriously nuclear weaponry; its very existence was a nagging thorn in the side of the Allied powers. Books and films have dwelt on the Allies' efforts to deny the Germans heavy water by military means; however, a history of heavy water has yet to be written. Filling this gap, Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy concentrates on the circumstances whereby Norway became the preeminent producer of heavy water and on the scientific role the rare isotope of hydrogen played in the wartime efforts by the Axis and Allied powers alike. Instead of a purely technical treatise on heavy water, the book describes the social history of the subject. The book covers the discovery and early uses of deuterium before World War II and its large-scale production by Norsk Hydro in Norway, especially under German control. It also discusses the French-German race for the Norwegian heavy-water stocks in 1940 and heavy water's importance for the subsequent German uranium project, including the Allied sabotage and bombing of the Norwegian plants, as well as its lesser role in Allied projects, especially in the United States and Canada. The book concludes with an overall assessment of the importance and the perceived importance of heavy water for the German program, which alone staked everything on heavy water in its quest for a nuclear chain reaction.
The Greatest Power on Earth
The Greatest Power on Earth - 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 Greatest Power on Earth write by Ronald William Clark. This book was released on 1981. The Greatest Power on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Nuclear Arms Race
The Nuclear Arms Race - 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 Nuclear Arms Race write by Jennifer Mason. This book was released on 2017-07-15. The Nuclear Arms Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear weaponry between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their allies during the Cold War. This significant volume outlines how dangerous this race really was, detailing its historical origins as well as the science behind nuclear technology, and stresses the consequences of a nuclear war, reflected in the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, at the end of World War II. Though the Soviet Union is no more, readers will find out how nuclear power is still being used, and misused, around the world."
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation - 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 Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation write by Allan S. Krass. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961
Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961 - 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 Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961 write by Richard G. Hewlett. This book was released on 2023-09-01. Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
