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170 pages : 18 cm "Established in 1942 at the height of the Second World War, the Manhattan Project was a dramatic quest to beat the Nazis to a deadly goal: the atomic bomb. At Los Alamos and several other sites, American, British, Canadian and refugee European scientists, together with engineers, technicians and many other workers, laboured to design and build nuclear weapons. Their efforts produced 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man', the bombs that ultimately destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945." "A vast and secret 'state within a state', the Manhattan Project cost $2 billion. It catapulted scientists - particularly nuclear scientists - to positions of intellectual prestige and political influence. State funds flowed for science as never before, leading to the creation of massive new research institutes, especially large particle accelerators designed to explore the properties of matter - like that at CERN, near Geneva. With their huge experiments, complex organisation and lavish funding, these institutes represented a new form of scientific organisation: 'Big Science'."--BOOK JACKET Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-170) Big science and the bomb -- Long before t

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Author

Hughes, Jeff (jeff A.)

Publisher

Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781840465044

Category

history

Subjects

Military, Fiction, Physics

Updated

2026-03-24