Nuclear America : military and civilian nuclear power in the United States, 1940-1980 / Gerard H. Clarfield and William M. Wiecek

It was bitterly cold outside, as Chicago's notorious lake wind drove the windchill below zero, making it colder than normal even for the second day of December. Arthur Compton, Nobel laureate and director of the obscurely named "Metallurgical Laboratory" at the University of Chicago, phoned his colleague James B. Conant, president of Harvard University. "The Italian navigator has just landed in the new world," he said. It was a cryptic statement, but then so many me... >Voir plus