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Also by Richard Rhodes:

Hell and Good Company, February 2015
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Hedy's Folly, December 2011
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Dark Sun, August 1996
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb, August 1995
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DARK SUN
By: Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

Simon and Schuster
August 1996
On Sale: August 6, 1996
736 pages
ISBN: 0684824140
EAN: 9780684824147
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Non-Fiction

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

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