Hiebert's book 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. She spins out the history of Nazi Germany's failed World War II atomic-bomb project by tracing the whereabouts of a small, blackened cube of Nazi uranium-- a cube that illuminated a little know but hugely consequential chapter of history: testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age. Hiebert outlines the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer. -- adapted from jacket.
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