The apocalypse factory : plutonium and the making of the atomic age
by Olson, Steve, 1956- (Author)
Summary
"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with... Full description
- Part 1. The road to Hanford
- The chain reaction
- Element 94
- The decision
- The Met Lab
- Plutonium at last
- The demonstration
- Part 2. A factory in the desert
- The evicted
- The builders
- The B Reactor
- The T Plant
- Implosion
- Washington, D.C.
- Trinity
- Tinian Island
- Part 3. Under the mushroom cloud
- Nagasaki Medical College Hospital
- The Urakami Valley
- Nagasaki
- Part 4. Confronting Armageddon
- The Cold War
- Building the nuclear arsenal
- Peak production
- The reckoning
- Remembering
- Epilogue.