{"product_id":"the-uranium-club-unearthing-lost-relics-of-the-nazi-nuclear-program-9781641608626","title":"The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried—and failed—to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes—two of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, \u003ci\u003eThe Uranium Club\u003c\/i\u003e winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany’s nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission’s infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known—and hugely consequential—chapter of history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. A Cube Appears\u003cbr\u003e 2. Introducing Element 92\u003cbr\u003e 3. A Brief History of Fission\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Taken from Germany\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Lawyer: John Lansdale Jr.\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Solider: Boris Pash\u003cbr\u003e 6. Alsos in Italy\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Scientist: Dr. Samuel Goudsmit\u003cbr\u003e 8. Alsos in England\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Hunt for FrÉdÉric Joliot-Curie\u003cbr\u003e 10. Paris\u003cbr\u003e 11. Belgium\u003cbr\u003e 12. Unoccupied France\u003cbr\u003e 13. Strasbourg\u003cbr\u003e 14. Heidelberg\u003cbr\u003e 15. Diebner’s Lab\u003cbr\u003e 16. Operation Big\u003cbr\u003e Part II: The Reactor Hitler Tried to Build\u003cbr\u003e 17. Modern Physics\u003cbr\u003e 18. Jewish Physics\u003cbr\u003e 19. The Uranium Club\u003cbr\u003e 20. How to Build a Nuclear Reactor\u003cbr\u003e 21. Early German Experiments\u003cbr\u003e 22. Copenhagen\u003cbr\u003e 23. 1942\u003cbr\u003e 24. War in the Service of Science\u003cbr\u003e 25. Building B-VIII\u003cbr\u003e 26. Farm Hall\u003cbr\u003e 27. The 400\u003cbr\u003e 28. Paperweights\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Gift of Ninninger\u003cbr\u003e 29. Finding Ninninger\u003cbr\u003e 30. The Race\u003cbr\u003e 31. Belgian Uranium\u003cbr\u003e 32. The CDT\u003cbr\u003e 33. Murray Hill\u003cbr\u003e 34. Making Metal\u003cbr\u003e 35. The Last Stop\u003cbr\u003e 36. The New Uranium Club\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Chicago Review Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50114040004951,"sku":"9781641608626","price":22.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781641608626.jpg?v=1741174986","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-uranium-club-unearthing-lost-relics-of-the-nazi-nuclear-program-9781641608626","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}