RHODES, Richard.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
New York: Simon & Schuster , 1986.
$975.00
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"I awakened short of breath and with my heart pounding,' Michihiko Hachiya remembers. So do we all": First Edition of The Making of the Atomic Bomb; Lengthily signed by Richard Rhodes
First edition of the author's classic work which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page with a quote from the book opposite the title page, "Richard Rhodes 'I awakened short of breath and with my heart pounding,' Michihiko Hachiya remembers. So do we all." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb 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.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
$975.00
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