The uranium club : unearthing the lost relics of the Nazi nuclear program
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Author
Contributors
Koeth, Timothy W., writer of foreword.
Published
Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2023].
Physical Desc
xiii, 273 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
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Nederland Community Library - NONFICTION | 355.825 Hiebert | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Atomic bomb -- Germany -- History.
Atomic bomb -- History.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Germany -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Political aspects.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Uranium enrichment.
World War, 1939-1945.
Atomic bomb -- History.
Atomic bomb -- United States -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Germany -- History.
Nuclear weapons -- Political aspects.
Nuclear weapons -- United States -- History.
Uranium enrichment -- History -- 20th century.
Uranium enrichment.
World War, 1939-1945.
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Published
Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2023].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliograhical references and index.
Description
Tim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly-he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried and failed to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes-two of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions. Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany's nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Missions infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known and hugely consequential chapter of history. The cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer. --,B&T.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Hiebert, M. E., & Koeth, T. W. (2023). The uranium club: unearthing the lost relics of the Nazi nuclear program . Chicago Review Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hiebert, Miriam E and Timothy W., Koeth. 2023. The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program. Chicago Review Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Hiebert, Miriam E and Timothy W., Koeth. The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program Chicago Review Press, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Hiebert, Miriam E., and Timothy W. Koeth. The Uranium Club: Unearthing the Lost Relics of the Nazi Nuclear Program Chicago Review Press, 2023.
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