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A Bridge Not Attacked: Chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War II | 
 enlarge | Author: Harold Johnston
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4311391
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 6.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 981238152X
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.541273
EAN: 9789812381521
ASIN: 981238152X
Publication Date: February 21, 2003
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Product Description
This volume tells the novel true stories concerning highly talented civilian scientists in some unusual places and situations during World War II. The purpose of the work is to present an almost forgotten history of secret war research in universities. The focus is on the narrow subject of chemical warfare research and on a small number of individuals, but with in-depth study of these individuals and what they did. Mostly graduate students and young instructors, they were working under the direction of professors at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California (Berkeley). Action took place in California, Florida and the jungles of Panama. This history touches on the work of four senior Nobel Prize winners and eight junior, future Nobel Prize winners at Caltech and Berkeley.
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A Bridge Not Attacked: chemical Warfare Civilian Research During World War II August 8, 2005
This is a well written documentary of behind the scenes scientific efforts during World War II. It is written with heart, intelligence, and humor. The reader is drawn into the story, though it is a documentary, autobiographical in reality and in essence. Thinking men/women will appreciate the thought process needed by the author when he was confronted with problems to solve, sometimes in spite of assignments. He and his group spare hundreds with a special odiferous skunk smell instead of carrying out chemical testing, first. If that part of the story is is the only portion read, chuckles followed by the realization of the serious consequences will occur. At that point, the reader realizes this is not small story. It is real.
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