Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element

In his history of this complex and dangerous element, noted physicist Jeremy Bernstein describes the steps that were taken to transform plutonium from a laboratory novelty into the nuclear weapon that destroyed Nagasaki.

• | Author: Jeremy Bernstein
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2009
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780801475177
• | ISBN-10: 0801475171