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URANIUM
WARS
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ALSO BY AMIR D. ACZEL
Fermat’s Last Theorem
Mystery of the Aleph:
Mathematics, the Kabbalah,
and the Search for Infinity
God’s Equation:
Einstein, Relativity, and
the Expanding Universe
Probability 1
Entanglement:
The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Descartes’s Secret Notebook
The Artist and the Mathematician
Chance
Pendulum:
Léon Foucault and
the Triumph of Science
The Jesuit and the Skull
The Cave and the Cathedral
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URANIUM
WARS
THE SCIENTIFIC RIVALRY THAT
CREATED THE NUCLEAR AGE
AMIR D.
ACZEL
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URANIUM WARS
Copyright © Amir D. Aczel, 2009.
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First published in 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United
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ISBN: 978-0-230-61374-4
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Aczel, Amir D.
Uranium wars : the scientific rivalry that created the nuclear age /
by Amir D. Aczel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4
1. Nuclear weapons—Research—History—20th century. 2. Nuclear
physics—Research—History—20th century. 3. Nuclear energy—
Research—History—20th century. 4. Science and state—History—20th
century. 5. Uranium as fuel—Hist