The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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Short Description for The Making of the Atomic Bomb The author recounts the story of how the atomic bomb was developed, from the discovery at the turn of century of the vast energy locked inside the atom, to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan during the Second World War.
Full description- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Published: 05 May 1998
- Format: Paperback 896 pages
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- Categories: Nuclear Weapons | Science: General Issues | History Of Science | Atomic & Molecular Physics | Nuclear Power & Engineering | Military Engineering | Ordnance, Weapons Technology | General & World History | History Of The Americas | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Military History
- ISBN 13: 9780684813783 ISBN 10: 0684813785
- Sales rank: 26,924
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Full description for The Making of the Atomic Bomb
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be.In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. 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 merely as 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 von 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" is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
