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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Rhodes Richard - Trade Paperback Non-Fiction

Description: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Trade paperback in good condition with clean pages, tight binding, and minimal cover wear (as pictured) Free shipping anywhere in the United States Synopsis: **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 thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence.From nuclear power’s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story.Richard Rhodes’s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.

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Book Title: Making of the Atomic Bomb

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Original Language: English

Publication Year: 1987

Type: Textbook

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Illustrator: Yes

Author: Richard Lee Rhodes

Genre: History, Atomic Bomb, Nuclear Science

Topic: Military / Nuclear Warfare, General

Item Weight: 33.8 Oz

Number of Pages: 928 Pages

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