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The making of the atomic bomb

By: Publication details: Simon & Schuster London 2012Edition: 25th Anniversary edDescription: 838 pISBN:
  • 9781471111235
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 623.45119  R4M2
Summary: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and 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 Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.(http://books.simonandschuster.com/Making-of-the-Atomic-Bomb/Richard-Rhodes/9781451677614)
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and 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 Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.(http://books.simonandschuster.com/Making-of-the-Atomic-Bomb/Richard-Rhodes/9781451677614)

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