The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

880 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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 The definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book details the science, the peopl...

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