Plutonium : a history of the world's most dangerous element / Jeremy Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-

Contributor:

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plutonium--History.

Plutonium.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 194 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, [2007]

Summary:

In his new history of this complex and dangerous element, noted physicist Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the nuclear weapon that destroyed Nagasaki.

Contents:

Preamble

The history of uranium

The periodic table

Frau Rèontgen's hand

Close calls

Fissions

Transuranics

Plutonium goes to war

Los Alamos

Electrons

Now what?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780309102964

0309102960

OCLC:

76481517