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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, 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 25 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 man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's 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.

©1995 Richard Rhodes (P)2016 Simon & Schuster Amériques Armes et guerre Guerres et conflits Militaire Physique Science États-Unis Guerre Impérialisme Mathématiques Russie Japon impérial Métaphysique Force aérienne Franklin D. Roosevelt Découvertes L’entre-deux-guerres Nuclear Weapons
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Great book that delights in its characters and its marginally topical anecdotes. Written in such a way that held my attention, the only way I learn anything.

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probably one of the best books ever written, and the narrator in this audiobook is great

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Rich in biographical and just enough technical detail; a rewarding experience about an event of profound consequence that has left humanity forever changed.

Masterful popular history.

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Nothing About this is Wrong NO REGRET

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It takes immense concentration to get through some of the highly technical scientific details about the bomb but, if you're able, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is an essential tome of knowledge about the subject.

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Several books in one. The science, the history, the raw reality of war, the profound manifest horror of the atom bomb.

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