RHODES, Richard.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
New York: Simon & Schuster , 1986.
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First Edition of The Making of the Atomic Bomb; 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. Boldly signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine 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.
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