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Rider of the Pale Horse
Hull, McAllister; Bianco, Amy. Illus: Hull, John
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Description for Rider of the Pale Horse
Paperback. A recollection of life in the workshops where nuclear bomb components were constructed during the Manhattan Project. Num Pages: 170 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 259.
A scientist’s recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull’s involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry department of an ordnance plant, Hull was drafted in 1943, after his freshman year in college. Unlike other accounts written by scientists and historians of that era, Hull’s narrative offers a realistic picture of the dangerous and messy job that GIs and civilian powdermen were asked to do.
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A scientist’s recollection of his life as a junior member of the Manhattan Project, Rider of the Pale Horse recounts McAllister Hull’s involvement in various nuclear-related enterprises during and after World War II. Fresh from a summer job working with explosives in the chemistry department of an ordnance plant, Hull was drafted in 1943, after his freshman year in college. Unlike other accounts written by scientists and historians of that era, Hull’s narrative offers a realistic picture of the dangerous and messy job that GIs and civilian powdermen were asked to do.
Hull’s description of his postwar work supporting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826335548
SKU
V9780826335548
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Ref
99-1
About Hull, McAllister; Bianco, Amy. Illus: Hull, John
McAllister Hull (1923–2011) was a professor emeritus of physics at the University of New Mexico, USA, where he served as provost in the early 1980s. John Hull teaches in the College of Charleston studio art department in South Carolina, USA. Amy Bianco is a science writer and editor in Sleepy Hollow, New York, USA.
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