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Product Details
Simon & Schuster, August 1995
Trade Paperback, 928 pages
ISBN-10: 0684813785
ISBN-13: 9780684813783
Awards and Nominations
- Pulitzer Prize
- National Book Award Winner
Description
With a new Introduction by the author, the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about how the atomic bomb came to be.
In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb.
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 merely as 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 is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb.
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 merely as 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 is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
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Browse Inside Making of the Atomic BombTracy Kidder The comprehensive history of the Bomb
-- and also a work of literature.
Carl Sagan A stirring intellectual adventure...clear, fast-paced, and indispensable.
San Francisco Chronicle 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.
Boston Globe, October 4, 2009
...of the ICBM is a story that needed to be told, however, and Sheehan tells it with enthusiasm. Richard Rhodes is author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, and Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the ...
Los Angeles Times, August 28, 2009
..." The violation plunged me into a depression. I collected stories from friends who'd had similar experiences. Richard Rhodes, author of "The Making of the Atomic Bomb," described a happy instance of plagiarism -- during the Clinton ...
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