![]() ![]() If anything gets short shrift, it is the work on radar during this period. * Ketchum's description of the events surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor includes an excellent background on military studies of Hawaii's vulnerability. And had Turner published his paper, predicting the element known later as plutonium - which proved to be the easiest way to build the bomb - that information would have provided the Germans with an essential clue." Adds Ketchum in a footnote, "Had Fermi published the results of his work with graphite, it might well have set the Germans - who had abandoned the use of carbon as a moderator - back on track. ![]() * the description of the first steps in developing the atomic bomb, which came at a period when new discoveries in physics were making it more possible in every month of 19. The first-person accounts give the story great flavor, especially in the description of the emergence of Wendell Wilkie as the Republican president candidate in 1940. An account of the pre-war years in the United States written by an author who was in a Pittsburgh prep school and then off to Yale during the period. ![]()
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