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The bomb in my garden
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Mahdi Obeidi |
Praise for The Bomb in My Garden "This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.S. intelligence on the subject. It is a fascinating and rare glimpse … |
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The 13th power
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Terry Wright |
Ray Crawford, a nuclear physicist frustrated with obscurity and elusive fame, agrees to conduct the dangerous 13th Power experiments in Simi Valley, California. At stake, Presidential Directive Numbe… |
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The increment
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David Ignatius |
When a hidden Tehran scientist sends encrypted messages to the CIA that reveal Iran's bomb-development program, agent Harry Pappas is directed to discern if the messages are true before enlisting the… |
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The eidolon
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Libby McGugan |
A worn-down nuclear physicist from Scotland is tapped by a brilliant lab expert at CERN to work for a week on a project for a hundred thousand pounds. Being intrigued, and ready for a change, Robert … |
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Half-life
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F. E. Close |
Bruno Pontecorvo dedicated his career to hunting for the Higgs boson of his day-- the neutrino, a nearly massless particle considered essential to the process of nuclear fission. His work on the Manh… |
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Before the Fall-Out
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Diana Preston |
On December 26, 1898, Marie Curie announced the discovery of radium and observed that "radioactivity seems to be an atomic property." Some 47 years later, her startling insight was on full and horrif… |
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A lily of the field
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Lawton, John |
A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Kar… |
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The Increment
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David Ignatius |
From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself Dr. Ali sends encrypted messages to the CIA, he then discovers he's being followed. To get his agent out, Pappas tu… |
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