The Atomic Age Opens
Author : Pocket Books
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Atomic bomb
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Author : Pocket Books
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Atomic bomb
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Author : Glenn Theodore Seaborg
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374299910
The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : Pocket books, inc., New York
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : Pocket Books
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Atomic bomb
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Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1439126224
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this 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 Hitler’s 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 psychology—from 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 power’s 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 Rhodes’s 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.
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nuclear energy
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Author : G. Wendt
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Page : 253 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1945
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Author : James Munves
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Page : 175 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Nuclear energy
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Author : Scott C. Zeman
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
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Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs, uranium-themed board games, future atomic waste facilities, and atomic-themed films such as 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'The Atomic Kid'. Despite the growing interest in atomic culture and history, the body of relevant scholarship is relatively sparse. Atomic Culture opens new doors into the field by providing a substantive, engaging, and historically based consideration of the topic that will appeal to students and scholars of the Atomic Age as well as general readers.