Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima by Diana Preston

Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima

Diana Preston

400 pages paperback 2005

3 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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In 1898, Marie Curie first described a phenomenon she called radioactivity. A half-century later, two physicists would stand before dawn in the New Mexico desert, slathering themselves with sunscreen-and fearing that the imminent test detonation m...

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