The New World, 1939/1946
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard Greening Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,62 MB
Release :
Category : International cooperation
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 1962
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher : Us Department of Energy
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 1962-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780870794711
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Richard G. Hewlett
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 37,2 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.