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Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, "Atomic" is the first fully realised popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives. Jim Baggott weaves these threads into a monumental book that spans ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to the aftermath of 'Joe-1', August 1949's first Soviet atomic bomb test.Why did physicists persist in developing the atomic bomb, despite the devastation that it could bring? Why, despite having a clear head start, did Hitler's physicists fail? Could the Soviets have developed the bomb without spies like Klaus Fuchs or Donald Maclean? Did the Allies really plot to assassinate a key member of the German bomb programme? Did the physicists knowingly inspire the arms race? "Atomic" is an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding; a tale barely believable as fiction, which just happens to be historical fact.
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- EditoreFaber And Faber Ltd.
- Data di pubblicazione2009
- ISBN 10 1848310447
- ISBN 13 9781848310445
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- LinguaInglese
- Numero di pagine576
- Contatto del produttorenon disponibile
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Atomic : The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. A hardback book with book and jacket in fine condition, dated 2009, First Edition. The first war of physics and the secret history of the atom bomb: 1939-49. Codice articolo 067913
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Atomic: The First War Of Physics And The Secret History Of The Atom Bomb 1939-49
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