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Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts From the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean

Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts From the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean

Anders, Roger M.

Paperback

Series: UNC Press Enduring Editions

Political BiographiesTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0807857238
ISBN13: 9780807857236
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 20 2011
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Soon after his appointment as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in 1950, Gordon E. Dean began an office diary composed primarily of notes from his telephone conversations. The diary contains Dean's accounts of the mobilization of atomic energy for the Korean War, the decision to conduct atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the U.S., the development and testing of the first thermonuclear device, the decisions to erect vast plants for the production of atomic weapons, the Rosenberg atom spy case, and other critical issues.

Originally published in 1987.

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