The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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— Szilárd, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and vbh Neumann-stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.
Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step,... Tovább

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History/Science
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the National Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
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— Szilárd, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and vbh 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 ofthe Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
''The comprehensive history of the Bomb—and also a work of literature"
—^Tracy Kidder
"A stirring intellectual adventure clear, fast-paced, and indispensable."
—Carl Sagan
"A monumental and enthralling history____Alive and vibrant in the book are all the
scientists and each human being stands vividly revealed as a man of science, of conscience, of doubts or of hubris." —San Francisco Chronicle
Richard Rhodes is a widely published author. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Vissza