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The American atom : a documentary history of nuclear policies from the discovery of fission to the present, 1939-1984 / Robert C. Williams and Philip L. Cantelon, editors.
LIBRA U264 .A44 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--History--Sources.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Nuclear energy--History--Sources.
- Nuclear energy.
- Nuclear disarmament--History--Sources.
- Nuclear disarmament.
- Nuclear nonproliferation--History--Sources.
- Nuclear nonproliferation.
- Deterrence (Strategy)--History--20th century--Sources.
- Deterrence (Strategy).
- History.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- Military policy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 333 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1984]
- Contents:
- The Nuclear Age: Background and Visions
- The Manhattan Project
- Atomic Energy in a Postwar World
- The Hydrogen Bomb
- The Oppenheimer Case
- Nuclear Testing and the Test Ban
- Deterrence
- Arms Control
- Nuclear Power.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0812279204
- OCLC:
- 65091084
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