Atomic Spaces

Author : Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068317
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Spaces written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Code-named the Manhattan Project, the detailed plans for developing an atomic bomb were impelled by urgency and shrouded in secrecy. This book tells the story of the project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Author : Denise Kiernan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451617542
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girls of Atomic City written by Denise Kiernan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback—an incredible true story of the top-secret World War II town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the young women brought there unknowingly to help build the atomic bomb. “The best kind of nonfiction: marvelously reported, fluidly written, and a remarkable story...As meticulous and brilliant as it is compulsively readable.” —Karen Abbott, author of Sin in the Second City At the height of World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was home to 75,000 residents, and consumed more electricity than New York City, yet it was shrouded in such secrecy that it did not appear on any map. Thousands of civilians, many of them young women from small towns across the U.S., were recruited to this secret city, enticed by the promise of solid wages and war-ending work. What were they actually doing there? Very few knew. The purpose of this mysterious government project was kept a secret from the outside world and from the majority of the residents themselves. Some wondered why, despite the constant work and round-the-clock activity in this makeshift town, did no tangible product of any kind ever seem to leave its guarded gates? The women who kept this town running would find out at the end of the war, when Oak Ridge’s secret was revealed and changed the world forever. Drawing from the voices and experiences of the women who lived and worked in Oak Ridge, The Girls of Atomic City rescues a remarkable, forgotten chapter of World War II from obscurity. Denise Kiernan captures the spirit of the times through these women: their pluck, their desire to contribute, and their enduring courage. “A phenomenal story,” and Publishers Weekly called it an “intimate and revealing glimpse into one of the most important scientific developments in history.” “Kiernan has amassed a deep reservoir of intimate details of what life was like for women living in the secret city...Rosie, it turns out, did much more than drive rivets.” —The Washington Post

Author : George Dyson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805072846
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Project Orion written by George Dyson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Project Orion describes one of the most awesome 'might have beens' (and may yet bes!) of the space age. This is essential reading for anyone interested in government bureaucracies and the military industrial complex." -Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Author : Fabienne Collignon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623567254
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination written by Fabienne Collignon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocket States crosses the disciplines of Cold War Studies, American Literature, American Studies and Cultural Studies. The particular attraction of this study lies in the combination of its range-close textual and visual analysis of the correlations between land and weaponry, set firmly within its political and cultural contexts-with its unique analytical approach. The book offers a synthesis between history, theories of technology, theories of space, popular culture, literary study and military science. It illuminates a variety of literary texts from key writers and thinkers such as Pynchon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe, while also invoking figures like Nikola Tesla, James Webb, Batman and Ronald Reagan. Organised topographically, according to how missile technology manifests itself differently in particular locations, Rocket States's geographical targets are Colorado, Kansas, Cape Canaveral and New York, variously titled 'Excavation', 'Preservation', 'Evacuation' and 'Transmission'. It advances through these states roughly chronologically, beginning in the late 1940s and early 1950s and coming to an end in the first part of the 21st century. Collignon's argument is concerned with identifying the recurring figures and fantasies of the Cold War: the dome or parabola as sheltering techno-form; the fictions of total security adapting to constantly changing targeting strategies; gadget love; closed, freezing worlds. As such, Rocket States analyses by what processes the Cold War is frequently literalised in its weapons installations and how these facilities, in turn, shape dreams of containment, survival, escape, techno-supremacy.

Author : F. H. Loring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Theories written by F. H. Loring and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erasmus Morgan Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on Military Explosives written by Erasmus Morgan Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James T. Visentine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In-space Technology Development: Atomic Oxygen and Orbital Debris Effects written by James T. Visentine and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Chemical news and Journal of physical science written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
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Author : United States. Central Air Documents Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book German-English Technical Dictionary of Aeronautics, Rocketry, Space Navigation Atomic Physics, Higher Mathematics [etc.] ... written by United States. Central Air Documents Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: