Rhodes Richard The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Rhodes Richard The Making of the Atomic Bomb

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons--from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project--this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical re......
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons--from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project--this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans' race to beat Hitler's Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology--from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of

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ProduktnavnRhodes Richard The Making of the Atomic Bomb
MerkeSimon & Schuster
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