The making of the atomic bomb
"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer Prize-winning b...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks,
2012.
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| Edition: | 25th anniversary edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Profound and necessary truth
- Moonshine
- Atoms and void
- Tvi
- The long grave already dug
- Men from Mars
- Machines
- Exodus
- Stirring and digging
- An extensive burst
- Part 2. A peculiar sovereignty
- Neutrons
- Cross sections
- A communication from Britain
- The new world
- Physics and desert country
- Different animals
- Revelations
- The evils of this time
- Part 3. Life and death
- Trinity
- Tongues of fire
- Epilogue.
