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The curve of binding energy / John McPhee.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPhee, John, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-2004.
- Taylor, Theodore B.
- Atomic bomb.
- Nuclear industry--Security measures.
- Nuclear industry.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974.
- Summary:
- Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.
- Notes:
- "Originally appeared in the New Yorker."
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0374133735
- 9780374133733
- 9780374515980
- 0374515980
- OCLC:
- 811000
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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