The New World: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, Volume I 1939-1946
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520071865 (0520071867)
Publish date: 1990-12-18
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 781
Edition language: English
Series: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (#1)
In his 1946 message bidding farewell to the men and women of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves wrote that, with regard to the peacetime applications of their labors, “you have raised the curtain on vistas of a new world.” More than just inspiring the title of Richard Hewlett and Oscar And...