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Published by University of California Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0520071875ISBN 13: 9780520071872
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by University of California Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0520071875ISBN 13: 9780520071872
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by University of California Press, 1990
ISBN 10: 0520071875ISBN 13: 9780520071872
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.
Published by University of California, 1990
ISBN 10: 0520071875ISBN 13: 9780520071872
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Cover is slightly faded and has a little dust, but otherwise clean and sturdy. Inside pages are bright and unmarked.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Meadowland Media, Fayetteville, AR, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Ships same or next business day.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fair. Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Fair. Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.5.
Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA, 1969
ISBN 10: 0520071875ISBN 13: 9780520071872
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xviii, 718 pages. Illustrations. Sources. Notes. Appendices. Index. DJ has some wear and is in a plastic sleeve. Foreword by George E. Mowry, the Chairman, Historical Advisory Committee. DJ has some wear, soiling, chips and tears. Richard Greening Hewlett (February 12, 1923 - September 1, 2015) was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He received his master's degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in 1952. In 1952 he joined the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), compiling classified progress reports from all of the many branches of the AEC for the Commissioners. In 1957, Hewlett became the first official historian of the AEC. Hewlett produced his first volume of the official history, covering the time period of the Manhattan Project through the formation of the AEC. The New World, 1939-1946, published in 1962, and was a runner-up for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize. Hewlett continued his work and published the second volume, Atomic Shield, 1947-1952 in 1969, which received the David D. Lloyd prize from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute. For both of these books, Hewlett was awarded the Distinguished Employee Award by the AEC, the highest employee award given by the agency. Hewlett retired in 1980 while he was still working on his third volume of AEC history. It was published in 1989 as Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961. The book won the Richard W. Leopold Prize from the Organization of American Historians as the best book of the year on a U.S. federal government agency. In 1947 the nation's atomic energy establishment amounted to little more than the remnants of the military organization and facilities which had produced the world's first atomic weapons. By the end of 1952 the Commission's domain included an arsenal of nuclear weapons, a refurbished and greatly enlarged complex of research and production facilities, and a dozen experimental or research reactors. Even more significant, the Commission's activities were no longer completely isolated from the rest of American life, as had been the work of the Manhattan project during World War II. By 1952 hundreds of nuclear scientists were receiving financial support from the Commission for research in their own laboratories, and private industry was beginning to take an active part in developing nuclear power. The Commission itself was no longer unique among Government agencies in terms of its independence and special status; it was becoming an integral part of the Executive Branch. Our task-to explain how this transformation occurred-proved more difficult than the one faced in Volume I. In place of a concentrated effort focused on a single goal, we were confronted by a variety of complex forces, by a rapidly expanding and evolving program which was documented by a mass of records several times that available for Volume I. Although we felt a temptation to adopt a topical and analytical approach, which several of our advisers urged upon us, we rejected this form of organization in favor of the narrative, chronological style of Volume I. A string of loosely joined essays would have been easier to write, but we thought it our duty as historians to attempt a more fundamental synthesis. We are content to stand on the position set forth in the Preface to Volume I: "Whatever the subject, whatever the essential significance of the event, whether and how we relate that event depends on its relevance to the central perspective. We think this criterion makes for good history. Indeed, the complex interrelationships of modern science, industry, and government make it impossible to take any other approach if history is to be kept within reasonable bounds."The central perspective of Volume II was clearly to be that of the five Commissioners, but it was more difficult to define the unifying theme of a book encompassing a spectrum of subjects from radiation genetics to cost accounting and from community management to foreign policy. No one theme could bridge all these topics, but we soon detected in the documents a strong undercurrent of development around which most of our material could be organized. This central idea was the inexorable shift in the Commission's aims from the idealistic, hopeful anticipation of the peaceful atom to the grim realization that for reasons of national security atomic energy would have to continue to bear the image of war. Hence our title, Atomic Shield, a phrase used by scientists, military leaders, and the Commissioners themselves to justify, or perhaps to rationalize, the nation's expanding nuclear arsenal. Presumed first edition/first printing this volume.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Printing of the First Edition. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1974. Very Good condition. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight, NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. All other pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. With 32 photographs, 8 charts and 2 figures. Foreword. Preface. 12 chapters: Control of the Sea; The Idea and the Challenge; The Question of Leadership; The Structure of Responsibility; Emerging Patterns of Technical Management; Prototypes and Submarines; Toward a Nuclear Fleet; Nuclear Power Beyond the Navy; Propulsion of the Fleet; Building the Nuclear Fleet; Fleet Operation and Maintenance; The Measure of Accomplishment. Appendix 1: Table of Organization. Appendix 2: Construction of the Nuclear Navy. Appendix 3: Financial Data. Also Abbreviations, Notes, Sources, and Index. Bound in the original blue boards, stamped in bright silver on the spine. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo, xv, 477pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. xv, [1], 477, [3] pages. Includes Illustrations, Foreword, and Preface, as well as chapters on Control of the Sea; The Idea and the Challenge; The Question of Leadership; The Structure of Responsibility; Emerging Patterns of Technical Management; Prototypes and Submarines; Toward a Nuclear Fleet; Nuclear Power Beyond the Navy; Propulsion of the Fleet; Building the Nuclear Fleet; Fleet Operation and Maintenance; and The Measure of Accomplishment. Appendix 1: Table of Organization. Appendix 2: Construction of the Nuclear Navy. Appendix 3: Financial Data. Also includes Abbreviations, Notes, Sources, and Index. Richard Greening Hewlett (February 12, 1923 - September 1, 2015) was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps doing work related to meteorology. The military sent him to Harvard University to study in the electronics school. In 1952 he became a program analyst in the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), compiling classified progress reports from all of the many branches of the AEC for the Commissioners. Hewlett later said that this job gave him a good general overview of the AEC and how it worked. In 1957, Hewlett was contacted in order to find a historian to write an official history of the AEC. Unable to find any academic historians interested, because of his history backgrounds, Hewlett himself was offered the job, which he happily accepted. The rest is history! Admiral Hyman G. Rickover has been the driving force behind the development of the Nuclear Navy. In 1946 Rickover, with a few junior officers and civilian engineers, began studying nuclear technology. Then Rickover, working almost alone, convinced the Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission in 1948 to support the project. Using the resources of the government and American industry, Rickover created an unusual and highly effective organization to design and build reactor plants and submarines. In 1953 a land-based prototype was completed; two years later the Nautilus, the world's first operational nuclear submarine, went to sea. Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan state that this achievement came a decade earlier than it would have without Admiral Rickover's persistence and drive.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Book First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. SIGNED/INSCRIBED! Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. 1st edition. 8vo. xv,477pp. Illus. Inscribed by authors on half title page. Good book. Good dust jacket. In polypropylene bag. (nuclear warships, history) Inquire if you need further information.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Brand New!.
Published by University of Chicago Press, 1974
ISBN 10: 0226332195ISBN 13: 9780226332192
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
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