The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes.
"Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan."--Cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 0671657194
- ISBN: 9780671657192
- ISBN: 0671441337
- ISBN: 0684813785
- ISBN: 9780684813783
- ISBN: 9780671441333
- ISBN: 9781451677614
- ISBN: 1451677618
- Physical Description: 886 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st Touchstone edition
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 848-861) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Moonshine -- Atoms and void -- Tvi -- The long grave already dug -- Men from Mars -- Machines -- Exodus -- Stirring and digging -- An extensive burst -- Neutrons -- Cross sections -- A communication from Britain -- The New World -- Physics and desert country -- Different animals -- Revelations -- The evils of this time -- Trinity -- Tongues of fire.
- Awards Note:
- National Book Award, 1987, Nonfiction
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- Atomic bomb > History.
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