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Scientists AGAINST TIME
by James Phinney Baxter 3rd - 1946

COPYRIGHT 1946, BY LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
FIRST EDITION
Published November 1946

CONTENTS

Foreword    vii

PART ONE — The Race for Superiority in New Weapons in the Second World War
I    Organization Saves Time    3
II    Science and Strategy    26
III    The Seesaw of Submarine Warfare    37
IV    Naval Warfare on and above the Surface    53
V    Amphibious Warfare    67
VI    Air Warfare    83
VII    Land Warfare    100

PART TWO — New Weapons and Devices
VIII    The Scientific Front Expands    119
IX    Radar and Loran    136
X    Radar Countermeasures    158
XI    Contributions to Subsurface Warfare    170
XII    New Devices for Air Warfare    187
XIII    Rockets    20!
XIV    Fire Control    212
XV    Proximity Fuzes    221
XVI    Dukw and Weasel    243

PART THREE — Chemistry and the War
XVII    New Explosives and Propellants    253
XVIII    Why Not Gas    266
XIX    Smoke, Incendiaries, and Flame Throwers    282

PART FOUR — Military Medicine
XX    Antimalarials    299
XXI    Blood and Blood Substitutes    321
XXII    Penicillin    337
XXIII    Insecticides and Rodenticides    360
XXIV    Aviation Medicine    377

PART FIVE — Men and Machines
XXV    Selection and Training    395
XXVI    Operations Research and Field Service    404

PART SIX — The Atomic Bomb
XXVII    Research to May 1, 1943    419
XXVIII    The Triumph of the Manhattan District    438

Epilogue    448
Appendices    451
Acknowledgments    458
Index    461

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