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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Simon and Schuster
August 1995
On Sale: August 5, 1995
928 pages
ISBN: 0684813785
EAN: 9780684813783
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Historical | Non-Fiction
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and
scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was
developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the
vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the
first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have
been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of
nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a
span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as
merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew
into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with
frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their
peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi,
Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers
into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute
by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most
awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic
Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to
William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It
is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as
powerful as its subject.
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