German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power, 1939-49

By Mark Walker

Book Overview

This a paperback edition of Professor Walker's full-scale examination of the German efforts to harness the economic, military and political power of nuclear fission between 1939 and 1949. The book explains clearly, in terms that the non-specialist can understand, what was involved in the Germans' quest, and in what ways the German scientists succeeded or failed in the development of 'the bomb'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521438047
• ISBN13: 9780521438049
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"