Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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Produktbeschreibung

With a new introduction from the author, this is the 25th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer prize-winning story of how the atomic bomb came to be.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster UK
• 25th annivers. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 838
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 992g
• ISBN-13: 9781471111235
• ISBN-10: 1471111237
• Artikelnr.: 36027785

Autorenporträt

Richard Rhodes is the author of several books. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Part One: Profound and Necessary Truth
1. Moonshine
2. Atoms and Void
3. Tvi
4. The Long Grave Already Dug
5. Men from Mars
6. Machines
7. Exodus
8. Stirring and Digging
9. An Extensive Burst
Part Two: A Peculiar Sovereignty
10. Neutrons
11. Cross Sections
12. A Communication from Britain
13. The New World
14. Physics and Desert Country
15. Different Animals
16. Revelations
17. The Evils of This Time
Part Three: Life and Death
18. Trinity
19. Tongues of Fire
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

'A stirring intellectual adventure...clear, fast-paced and indispensable' Carl Sagan