The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

886 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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