The First War of Physics

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"The best popular science book of the year to date by far, this is an epic journey through the developnnent of atomic power and the atom bomb during the Second World War." -popular science
"Baggott leads us into the lives of the scientists who turned—or were turned - from seeking answers to the origins of the universe to become the destroyers of worlds."-da/ly telegraph
"Vividly written and impressively researched. Drawing on material including declassified British secret-service transcripts and documents from Soviet archives, this is a thorough but engaging account of the race to build the atomic bomb."-nature:
"Baggott's account is dramatic, pacey, and engaging, and manages to convey a rich sense both of the various personalities involved and of the larger forces that shaped the events." -phy5ic5 world. TDP ID BDDK OF THE YEAR 5ELECTIGN
"World War II changed many things and not the least among them was
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PRAISE FDR
THE FIRST WAR DF PHY5IE5
"The best popular science book of the year to date by far, this is an epic journey through the developnnent of atomic power and the atom bomb during the Second World War." -popular science
"Baggott leads us into the lives of the scientists who turned—or were turned - from seeking answers to the origins of the universe to become the destroyers of worlds."-da/ly telegraph
"Vividly written and impressively researched. Drawing on material including declassified British secret-service transcripts and documents from Soviet archives, this is a thorough but engaging account of the race to build the atomic bomb."-nature:
"Baggott's account is dramatic, pacey, and engaging, and manages to convey a rich sense both of the various personalities involved and of the larger forces that shaped the events." -phy5ic5 world. TDP ID BDDK OF THE YEAR 5ELECTIGN
"World War II changed many things and not the least among them was
the relationship of science to the military. Readers interested in this
important historic transformation will find Jim Baggott's engaging
history replete with drama and insight."
-MARTIN J. 5HERWIN. american prometheus: the triumph and tragedy df j. robert oppenheimer. WINNER OFTHE HODB PULITZER PRIZE FDR BIDGRAPHY.
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? F HUMAN UNDERSTANQING: THE MONUMENTAL RACE TD BUILD THE FIRST ATOMIC WEAPONS.
ich In personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race between the United States, Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union to build humankind's most destructive weapon. These weapons would bring an end to World War II, lead the superpowers to a deadly game of brinksmonship during the Cold War, and continue to haunt our nightmares with threats from Iran and North Korea in the twenty-first century.
Jim Baggott presents a dramatic narrative that spans ten historic years: from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of 'Joe-1August 1949's first Soviet atomic bomb test. Why did physicists persist in developing the atomic bomb, despite the devastation that it could bring? Why, despite having a clear head start, did Hitler's physicists fail? To what extent did the Soviet atomic program rely on intelligence gathered by spies such as Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, David Green-glass, and the Rosenbergs? Did the Allies really plot to assassinate a key memberofthe German bomb program?

Did the physicists knowingly inspire the arms race? This book, drawing on now declassified material, answers these and many other questions during its dramatic narrative.
The First War of Physics is a grand and frightening story of scientific ambition, intrigue, and genius: a tale barely believable as fiction, which just happens to be historical fact.
JIM BAGGDTT is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist, he maintains a broad interest in science, philosophy, and history and writes on these subjects for New Scientist magazine and other journals. His previous books have been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Pegasus, 2006) and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (Oxford, 2004). He lives in England.
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