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Product Description: In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R. Groves was given the job of building the atomic bomb. As a career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers, Groves had overseen hundreds of military construction projects, including the Pentagon...read more
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9781629145310 | Skyhorse Pub Co Inc, October 21, 2014, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R.
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9781410461933 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, September 18, 2013), cover price $32.99
9781594202278 | Penguin Pr, September 17, 2013, cover price $36.00
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9781594137556 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, September 30, 2014), cover price $18.00
9780143125785 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 26, 2014), cover price $18.00
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9780143145011 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, September 17, 2013), cover price $39.95
Product Description: Examines atomic energy as a lens to 20th and 21st-century America. Â Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energyâfocusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear powerâon the lives of Americans within a world context...read more
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9780205862214 | Pck pap/ps edition (Prentice Hall, November 6, 2012), cover price $78.47 | About this edition: Examines atomic energy as a lens to 20th and 21st-century America.
9780205742547 | 1 edition (Taylor & Francis, November 4, 2012), cover price $71.95 | About this edition: Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy¿focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power¿on the lives of Americans within a world context.
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9780195078213, titled "Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom" | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | also contains Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety About the Atom | About this edition: Traces the history of the nuclear age from the Manhattan project to Star Wars, looks at how the atom bomb influenced United States defence policy, and describes the impact of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy on everyday life
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9781557506818 | Naval Inst Pr, July 20, 2009, cover price $49.95
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9781586420390 | 1 edition (Steerforth Pr, March 1, 2002), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Follows the World War II race to build the atomic bomb while profiling its top commander, documenting how Colonel Groves drove countless individuals to collecting the necessary funds and materials as well as orchestrated solutions to thousands of technical problems.
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9781586420673 | Reprint edition (Steerforth Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Follows the World War II race to build the atomic bomb while profiling its top commander, documenting how Colonel Groves drove countless individuals to collecting the necessary funds and materials as well as orchestrated solutions to thousands of technical problems.
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9780972505109 | Cdr edition (Historical Odysseys Pub Llc, October 1, 2002), cover price $29.95
Product Description: In this vivid account of the impact of the atomic bomb on American political and cultural life, Allan M. Winkler delineates how fears of nuclear disaster have become a part of our culture. Tracing the debate among scientists and intellectuals over military and civilian uses of atomic power as well as the waxing and waning of popular protest, "Life Under a Cloud" reveals the irony, anxiety, and official insanity of the atomic age...read more
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9780195078213 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | also contains Archivos Top Cow Witchblade 7 Parientes de sangre / Family Blood | About this edition: Traces the history of the nuclear age from the Manhattan project to Star Wars, looks at how the atom bomb influenced United States defence policy, and describes the impact of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy on everyday life
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9780252067730 | Univ of Illinois Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: In this vivid account of the impact of the atomic bomb on American political and cultural life, Allan M.
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9781560725565 | Nova Science Pub Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $49.00
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9780815791829 | Brookings Inst Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $59.95
9780815777748 | Brookings Inst Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $62.95
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9780815777731 | Brookings Inst Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $34.95
Discusses America's Cold War atomic policy and the government's disregard for the impact of atomic testing and uranium mining
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9780679433644 | Pantheon Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Discusses America's Cold War atomic policy and the government's disregard for the impact of atomic testing and uranium mining
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9780813525464 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1998, cover price $23.95
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9780764300639 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, August 1, 1996, cover price $49.95
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9780684809397 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: An account of America's most brilliant nuclear scientists putting their talents to use for peace reveals how the once top-secret weapons labs at Los Alamos are being used for peacetime research to benefit mankind
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9780262631471 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, January 29, 1993), cover price $47.00
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9780894642371 | Original edition (Krieger Pub Co, December 1, 1991), cover price $24.25
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9780262132589 | Mit Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $37.50
Product Description: Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history . But this is intellectually constricting, both for understanding the nuclear age and for making thoughtful political judgments...read more
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9780773507845 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history .
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9780773508026 | McGill Queens Univ Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Most of what is written on nuclear weapons concentrates, understandably, on the here and now: the nuclear threat is a central and continuing fact of modern history .
The General and the Bomb: A Biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Director of the Manhattan Project
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9780396087618 | Dodd Mead, January 1, 1988, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: Based on new material gathered from Groves' family papers, interviews, and National Archives, this study reveals that the success of the Manhattan Project was due, not to Oppenheimer, but to General Groves
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