The Birth of the Bomb. Preface by sir George Thomson
by Clark, Ronald W
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Horizon Press, 1961. Hardcover. xiv, 209p., illustrated with a single composite frontispiece consisting of four photoportraits of UK atomic harbingers, hardbound American first edition in tan cloth boards in its lackluster dust jacket on glossy paperstock. A near-fine copy, dust jacket spine panel is faintly sunned, but otherwise item is entirely sound, clean and unmarked. Background of British science and military planning. Oppenheimer is not even listed in the index. Britain led, the US finished.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 315666
- Title
- The Birth of the Bomb. Preface by sir George Thomson
- Author
- Clark, Ronald W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Horizon Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Bookseller catalogs
- English History, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK; Nuclear weapons, Atomic bomb; France; Weaponry;
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About the Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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