The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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History/Science
"Rich in drama and suspense remarkable in breadth and depth____
The best overview of the century's pivotal event."
—William J. Broad, The New York Times Book Review
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
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.
Richard Rhodes takes... Tovább

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History/Science
"Rich in drama and suspense remarkable in breadth and depth____
The best overview of the century's pivotal event."
—William J. Broad, The New York Times Book Review
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
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.
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 of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de
force and a document as powerful as its subject.
Acclaim for
THE MAKING OF
THE ATOMIC BOMB
"Brilliant A tour de force." —Chicago Tribune
"The best, the richest, and the deepest description of the development of physics in
the first half of this century that I have ever read."
—Isaac Asimov
"A stirring intellectual adventure, and a clear, fast-paced, and indispensable history."
—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 R Sloan Foundation. Vissza