TY - BOOK AU - Aczel,Amir D. TI - Uranium wars: the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age SN - 9780230613744 (hbk.) AV - QC 773 A189u 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Nuclear physics KW - Research KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Nuclear weapons KW - Nuclear energy KW - Science and state KW - Uranium as fuel KW - Uranio KW - Historia KW - Armas nucleares KW - Investigación KW - Energía nuclear KW - Física nuclear KW - Uranio como combustible N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.[237]-239) and index; 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 ER -