| Introduction and Credits | ||||
| Preface to the 1981 Publication | ||||
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CHAPTER 1 | A New Lab for a New Science | ||
| CHAPTER 2 | The Headmaster and His School | |||
| EPISODE 1 | A Productive Error | |||
| CHAPTER 3 | Deflecting Physics for War | |||
| EPISODE 2 | The Calutron | |||
| CHAPTER 4 | Demobilized Physics | |||
| EPISODE 3 | Machine Made Mesons | |||
| CHAPTER 5 | Cold War in Science | |||
| EPISODE 4 | A Neutron Foundry | |||
| CHAPTER 6 | Bumper Crop | |||
| EPISODE 5 | Strange and Contrary Particles | |||
| CHAPTER 7 | The End of the Beginning | |||
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