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Author Canaday, John, 1961- author.

Title Critical assembly : poems of the Manhattan Project / John Canaday
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2017

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Series Mary Burritt Christiansen poetry series
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Medialog: William Laurence -- U / Potential -- Albert Einstein (Life is finite) -- Leo Szilard (In 1913, H.G. Wells) -- Eugene Wigner (Hatred's homicidal) -- Otto Frisch (Chancellors come and go) -- Max Delbrück (Niels Bohr was God) -- Otto Frisch (Rare earth sparks the clouds) -- Leo Szilard (Not everyone can be as fortunate as Christ) -- Albert Einstein (The Czechoslovak state is occupied) -- Edward Teller (Now Einstein knows me) -- Janet Coatesworth (I spent each August in the steno pool) -- Albert Einstein (The grass is hazy)
EK / Kinetic -- Alexander Sachs (History's hard) -- Leslie Groves (Oh, that thing) -- Edith Warner (Who needed mountains) -- Robert Serber (Oppie and his brother) -- John Dudley (No matter what your weapons are) -- Edith Warner (Luck finds me when I least expect it) -- John Dudley (But "Oppie" has his own ideas) -- Louis Slotin (On the train from Oak Ridge) -- Dorothy McKibben (Each day a stream of new lost souls) -- Robert Serber (When Oppie's first recruits arrived) -- Richard Feynman (Once people thought that angels) -- Edward Condon (Dammit, Oppie's always right)
Louis Slotin (I've been called a cowboy) -- Peer de Silva (Tigers roam the globe) -- Edward Teller (Wigwam calls us Martians) -- Ruth Marshak (Tech was a pit) -- James Nolan (What were we making: babies) -- John Dudley (By then I'd had it up to here) -- Bernice Brode (Mary knows what's what) -- Edward Teller (Bethe made the Head of Theory?) -- Klaus Fuchs (Hitler disliked my politics) -- Eugene Wigner (We are all guests) -- Edith Warner (Venus hangs low above the mountains) -- J. Robert Oppenheimer (The snows came early) -- Kitty Oppenheimer (Though I was born a German princess)
James Nolan (Petey didn't pity whores) -- Robert Serber (Most days it was easy to forget) -- Willy Higinbotham (Lightning snaps at the windows) -- Appolonia Chalee (Mrs. Fisher's superstitious) -- Edith Warner (Over the years I learned their rituals) -- Niels Bohr (Nature is the wildest West) -- John Lansdale Jr. (Horns blare. Dust burgeons) -- Kitty Oppenheimer (Now morning sickness is the proof of love) -- Dorothy McKibben (We mustn't speak of doctors) -- Antonio Martinez (Crisp, starched khaki) -- Kitty Oppenheimer ("Hell yes, I have ID") -- Chien-Shiung Wu ("Damn kraut")
Donald Mastick (Wonder of the work) -- Richard Feynman (Man's main concern is man) -- Louis Slotin (My work requires grace) -- Kitty Oppenheimer (When Robert planted Peter in my gut) -- ∆H / Heat -- Rose Bethe (We beat the Nazis on a Tuesday) -- Joseph Rotblat (Spay nature) -- John Dudley (In Luzon, everybody thought) -- George Kistiakowsky (I don't know much about luck) -- Louis Slotin (The core assembly was as riveting) -- Dorothy McKibben (How near we are to dying) -- Norris Bradbury (Some things you can control) -- Edward Teller (Our drab green school bus shudders)
Summary "With technical mastery and remarkable empathy, Canaday introduces readers to the people involved in the creation and testing of the first atomic bomb, from initial theoretical conversations to the secretive work at Los Alamos. Critical Assembly also includes brief biographies, notes, and a bibliography for further exploration about this critical event in world history."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Manhattan Project (U.S.) -- Poetry
SUBJECT Manhattan Project (U.S.) fast
Subject Atomic bomb -- Poetry
Nuclear physicists -- Poetry
Nuclear energy -- Poetry
POETRY -- General.
Atomic bomb
Nuclear energy
Nuclear physicists
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017028534
ISBN 0826358845
9780826358844