(PDF/ePub) The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - C. Bruce Tarter

The American Lab: An Insider's History of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

By : C. Bruce Tarter

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Nobel laureate Ernest O. Lawrence and renowned physicist Edward Teller founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1952. A new ideas incubator, the Lab was at the heart of nuclear testing and the development of supercomputers, lasers, and other major technological innovations of the second half of the twentieth century. Many of its leaders became prominent figures in the technical and defense establishments, and by the end of the 1960s, Livermore was the peer of Los Alamos National Lab, a relationship that continues today.In The American Lab, former Livermore director C. Bruce Tarter offers unparalleled access to the inner workings of the Lab. Touching on Cold War nuclear science and the technological shift that occurred after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he traces the Lab's evolution from its founding under University of California management through its transfer to private oversight. Along the way, he highlights important episodes in that journey, from the invention of

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Author : C. Bruce Tarter

Pages : 472 pages

Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press

Language :

ISBN-10 : 1421425319

ISBN-13 : 9781421425313

 
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