02333nam 2200505 a 450 991079153570332120230105180542.01-74223-210-8(CKB)2560000000056292(EBL)533800(OCoLC)647917245(SSID)ssj0000282904(PQKBManifestationID)11207542(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282904(PQKBWorkID)10336317(PQKB)10064749(MiAaPQ)EBC533800(Au-PeEL)EBL533800(CaPaEBR)ebr10381403(EXLCZ)99256000000005629220100618h20092007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlutonium[electronic resource] a history of the world's most dangerous element /Jeremy BernsteinSydney, N.S.W. New South2009, c20071 online resource (213 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-74223-088-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182) and index.Blank Page; Blank Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I Preamble; II The History of Uranium; III The Periodic Table; IV Frau Röntgen's Hand; V Close Calls; VI Fissions; VII Transuranics; VIII Plutonium Goes to War; IX Los Alamos; X Electrons; XI Now What?; Notes; Credits; IndexHistorically fascinating and scientifically rigorous, Plutonium tells the story of a rare and exotic element put to deadly use in atomic bombs, from its discovery to the present day. From the discovery of uranium in 1789 to the Manhattan Project, from Nazi efforts to build a nuclear bomb to the cold war between the USA and USSR, Bernstein tells the important story of one of nature's rarest elements, put to deadly use in nuclear weapons. Along the way, he paints revealing pen portraits of scientists who helped discover the element and produce it in vast quantities during World War II-from MariePlutoniumPlutonium.546.434 22Bernstein Jeremy1929-44845MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791535703321Plutonium3734781UNINA