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Plutonium A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element

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ISBN-10: 0801475171

ISBN-13: 9780801475177

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jeremy Bernstein

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Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.12" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Jeremy Bernstein is the author of many books on science for the general reader, including Plutonium: A History of the World�e(tm)s Most Dangerous Element and Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. He is a former staff writer for the New Yorker.

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Preamble
The History of Uranium
The Periodic Table
Frau R�ntgen's Hand
Close Calls
Fissions
Transuranics
Plutonium Goes to War
Los Alamos
Electrons
Now What?
Notes
Credits
Index