The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451677618 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 896 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Flawed Masterpiece Daryl Carpenter A quick note for anyone deciding which edition to buy: The "25th Anniversary Edition" removes the book's final chapter completely. This feels utterly disingenuous and revisionist to me. Rhodes' "Dark Sun" covers the same ground as the omitted epilogue, but this edition ends so abruptly I'm amazed there wasn't an advertisement for the other books in his "nuclear anthology" on the final page. The Kindle version is somewhat flawed; there are quite a few typos and dropped punctuation, and it's not always obvious when direct quotations begin and end. I'd recommend buying one of the older physical editions if you want to read th. Amazon Customer said Highly recommended. It's a fascinating, long, and detailed history from before WWI until the end of WWII of the science, the scientists, the chance events and brilliant discoveries that ushered in the new field of nuclear physics, and that eventually led to the race to make a super-bomb before the Axis powers succeeded in doing so. It reads like a novel, a thriller, a horror story; sad, funny, inspirational and heartbreaking.Many characters we already know (Einstein, Bohr, Fermi) but many of the most historically influential in this narrative are unknown to most (like the first guy to conceive of the notion of a chain reaction, who then later. Bomb Generation I was born a few years after the use of the first atomic weapons, and am a member of the first generation to grow up under the threat of nuclear holocaust. I still remember my grade school civil defense drills of crouching in the hallway or hiding under a desk after it was reported that Russia also had the bomb. This is an excellent book that not only outlines the history of the science and development and use of the first A-bombs, but also talks about the mindset of the scientists and politicians that developed the bombs and their hope that these weapons would be so horrendous that they would offer a deterrence to future
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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.. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the people, and the socio-political 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. 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.