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-Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1508281599
ISBN-13
9781508281597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17038581687
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making of the Atomic Bomb : 25th Anniversary Edition
Author
Richard Rhodes
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Military Science, General, History
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
A stirring intellectual adventure, and a clear, fast-paced, and indispensable history of events on which our future depends.