The Making Of The Atomic Bomb

ISBN-13: 9781471111235 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 896 str.

Richard Rhodes

Opis

What began as an interesting and speculative problem for physicists grew into the Manhattan Project and then into the race to build the first atomic weapon. Richard Rhodes traces the development of the bomb through to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

Recenzje

'A stirring intellectual adventure...clear, fast-paced and indispensable' Carl Sagan

O autorze

Richard Rhodes is the author of several books. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.