Nasa's Nuclear Frontier: The Plum Brook Reactor Facility, 1941-2002

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Presents a visual history of the Plum Brook reactor, including numerous images and captions, a narrative history, and selected primary documents. This work culminated in the atomic bomb. After the war, as Plum Brook's ordnance factories went silent, scientists continued their pursuit of nuclear knowledge by constructing test reactors. Timeline included within the Appendices section. Military personnel, especially strategists, leaders and soldiers may be most interested in this volume, students pursuing research about the Plum Brook facilitiy and the land used to house the military's explosives and gun powder.

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