The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Brossura

Rhodes, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0684813785 ISBN 13: 9780684813783

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 1995

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Tracy 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.

L'autore:

Richard Rhodes is a widely published author. His articles have appeared in numerous national magazines. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0684813785
• ISBN 13: 9780684813783
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 896