Making of the Atomic Bomb e-bog
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**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weaponsfrom the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Projectthis epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping accou...
E-bog
131,30 DKK
Forlag
Simon & Schuster
Udgivet
18 september 2012
Længde
928 sider
Genrer
HB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781439126226
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weaponsfrom the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Projectthis epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans race to beat Hitlers Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychologyfrom FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence. From nuclear powers earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story. Richard Rhodess ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.