The Making of the Atomic Bombby Richard Rhodes | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 790 |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Date Read: | 02/18/1989 |
| Notes: | Pulitzer Prize Winner for General Non-fiction. Here, 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. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity spanned 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 von Neumann — stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Rhodes takes us on the journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitve story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. |
| My Rating: | 8 |