Description
This absorbing history revisits the interactions among science, the national interest, and public and private funding that was initiated in World War I and flourished in WWII. It then follows the Manhattan Project from inception to dissolution, describing the primary influences that helped execute the world's first successful plan for nuclear research and tracing the lineages of modern national nuclear agencies back to their source.
About the Author
Jeff Hughes is a senior lecturer in the history of science and technology at the University of Manchester. His research concerns the social history of the physical and chemical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the institutional history of twentieth-century British science.
Reviews
Hughes develops his thesis in interesting fashion. His essay is free of technical jargon but will be most accessible to readers familiar with the bomb's history and with huge, expansive installations such as CERN or Fermilab. Booklist Pacy and concise. The Times (London) Engrossing and information-packed. -- Marjorie C. Malley ISIS
Awards
Winner of Watson Davies and Helen Miles Davis Prize 2004.
Book Information
ISBN 9780231131520
Author Jeff Hughes
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press