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Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope by his peers, he was regarded as infallible in his instincts and research. His discoveries changed our world; they led to weapons of mass destruction and conversely to life-saving medical interventions.
This unassuming man struggled with issues relevant today, such as the threat of nuclear annihilation and the...
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"A highly readable account . . . tracing the future Nobel laureate through his formative years and up to the eve of World War II" (The Wall Street Journal).
On the fiftieth anniversary of Hiroshima, Nobel-winning physicist Hans Bethe called on his fellow scientists to stop working on weapons of mass destruction. What drove Bethe, the head of Theoretical Physics at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, to renounce the weaponry he had once worked...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Chernobyl disaster in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Chernobyl disaster. When a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in April 1986, nobody could have known just how devastating the effects would be. Thousands of people died as a result of the catastrophe and even today the surrounding areas are considered...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la catástrofe nuclear de Chernóbil, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Profundizar en el contexto que rodea a la explosión en la central nuclear de Chernóbil, marcado por la URSS y su programa nuclear civil en plena Guerra Fría
• Descubrir por qué se produjo el desastre nuclear de Chernóbil...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl en moins d'une heure!
Le 26 avril 1986 à 1 h 23, une catastrophe d'un nouveau genre ébranle le monde: un réacteur de la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl explose. Alors que les autorités soviétiques camouflent l'accident, puis en minimisent l'importance, un nuage radioactif se forme et se propage sur toute l'Europe...
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6) 12 seconds of silence: how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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"The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."--