The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes

25th-anniversary Edition

Paperback (05 Jul 2012)


Publishers Synopsis

With a brand new introduction from the author, this is the complete story of how the bomb was developed. It is told in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and Yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of mans most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirers The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.


Book information

ISBN: 9781471111235
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Imprint: Simon & Schuster UK Ltd.
Pub date: 05 Jul 2012
Edition: 25th anniversary Edition
DEWEY: 623.45119
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 160
Number of pages: 838
Weight: 952g
Height: 232mm
Width: 151mm
Spine width: 56mm