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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Uranium wars</title>
    <subTitle>the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Aczel, Amir D.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1950-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Palgrave Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>248 p.: ill., photg., 24cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Physics and Uranium-- On the trail of the nucleus-- Lise Meitner-- The Meitner-Hahn Discovery-- Enrico Fermi-- The Rome experiments-- The events of 1938-- Christmas 1938-- The Heisenberg Menace-- Chain reaction-- The nazi nuclear machine-- Copenhagen-- The moment of truth-- Building the bomb-- The decision to use the bomb-- Evidence from a Spying operation-- The Cold War-- Uranium's future.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Amir D. Aczel.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p.[237]-239) and index</note>
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    <topic>Nuclear physics</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nuclear weapons</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Nuclear energy</topic>
    <topic>Research</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Science and state</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Uranium as fuel</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Uranio</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Armas nucleares</topic>
    <topic>Investigación</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Energía nuclear</topic>
    <topic>Investigación</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Física nuclear</topic>
    <topic>Investigación</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Uranio como combustible</topic>
    <topic>Historia</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QC 773 A189u 2009</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780230613744 (hbk.)</identifier>
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