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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rhodes, Richard, 1937- Making of the atomic bomb. New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1986 (OCoLC)755268018 |
Named Person: | J Robert Oppenheimer |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Rhodes |
ISBN: | 0671441337 9780671441333 0684813785 9780684813783 0671657194 9780671657192 |
OCLC Number: | 13793436 |
Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1988. |
Description: | 886 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Part 1. Profound and necessary truth. 1. Moonshine ; 2. Atoms and void ; 3. Tvi ; 4. The long grave already dug ; 5. Men from Mars ; 6. Machines ; 7. Exodus ; 8. Stirring and digging ; 9. An extensive burst -- Part 2. A peculiar sovereignty. 10. Neutrons ; 11. Cross sections ; 12. A communication from Britain ; 13. The new world ; 14. Physics and desert country ; 15. Different animals ; 16. Revelations ; 17. The evils of this time -- Part 3. Life and death. 18. Trinity ; 19. Tongues of fire -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Richard Rhodes. |
Abstract:
The author recounts the story of how the atomic bomb was developed, from the discovery at the turn of century of the vast energy locked inside the atom, to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan during the Second World War.
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