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Title 12 seconds of silence : how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon / Jamie Holmes.
Author Holmes, Jamie, author.
Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
©2020
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Description xiv, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemünde -- Don't Slow Down -- Prying Eyes -- Escalation -- Part II: War -- Ready or Not -- No Alibis -- Dr. Jones's Raid -- The Garage -- Three Runs, Three Hits -- Into the Fleet -- New Tricks -- Cherry Stone -- A London Fuse -- AMNIARIX -- Part III: Victory -- Ski Shapes -- Ranch Country -- Chemical Boys -- Things Carried -- Wachtel is Hiding -- A Comet Gone Wrong -- "Turkey Shoot" -- Ack Ack Girls -- A Cold Winter -- Tug of War -- Downtime.
Summary "The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II-and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Proximity fuzes -- Design and construction.
World War, 1939-1945.
Military weapons -- History.
Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development -- History.
Johns Hopkins University. Applied Physics Laboratory -- History.
Added Title Twelve seconds of silence
ISBN 9781328460127 hardcover : $28.00
1328460126 hardcover
Standard No. 40030055292
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