12 seconds of silence, how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon, Jamie Holmes
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12 seconds of silence, how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon, Jamie Holmes
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
Index
index present
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non fiction
Main title
12 seconds of silence
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dictionariesbibliography
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1125281440
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Jamie Holmes
Sub title
how a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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
Table Of Contents
Part I: Peace -- Zing-a-Zing! -- Emergency Mode -- Scientific Spies -- The Wizard -- Section Tuve -- Choice Overload -- Uncanny Days -- Peenemùˆnde -- 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
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How a team of inventors, tinkerers, and spies took down a Nazi superweapon
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- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Military weapons
- 1900-1999
- History
- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory -- History
- Proximity fuzes -- Design and construction
- Electronic books
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage
- Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Military weapons -- History
- World War, 1939-1945
- Weapons industry
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- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Military weapons
- 1900-1999
- History
- Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory -- History
- Proximity fuzes -- Design and construction
- Electronic books
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intelligence & Espionage
- Weapons industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- Military weapons -- History
- World War, 1939-1945
- Weapons industry
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- Author1
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