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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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 twenty-five 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. more

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-02-2009; Impressive in scope, somewhat difficult to read; As many have said, the amount of research that went into this book, and the resultant detail, was phenomenal.I'm glad I bought and read the book. It gave me insights and understanding that I didn't have before hand, related to the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-29-2009; Exhaustive History Lesson, tendentious view of "Science."; March 29, 2009Ardsley, PATHE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB provides a valuable insight into the developments within physics and chemistry which directly lead to the Manhattan Project with its parallel development of the first fission bombs...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-19-2009; Superb, in narrative, character study, political and philosophical thinking and of course nuclear physics; This book details from the beginning of radiation physics from the beginning of the 20th century till the massive efforts by scientists and the US government to build the first nuclear bomb. However, this is not just a simple chronicle...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-27-2009; Did anyone actually READ this book?; One hundred pages in: I don't care that Niels Bohr's father had an older friend who admired Kierkegaard and that Kierkegaard had read a book that he admired by Poul Moller, or the plot of that book, I want to read about the development...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-29-2009; Exhaustive History Lesson, tendentious view of "Science."; March 29, 2009Ardsley, PATHE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB provides a valuable insight into the developments within physics and chemistry which directly lead to the Manhattan Project with its parallel development of the first fission bombs...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-02-2009; Impressive in scope, somewhat difficult to read; As many have said, the amount of research that went into this book, and the resultant detail, was phenomenal.I'm glad I bought and read the book. It gave me insights and understanding that I didn't have before hand, related to the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-02-2006; Overhyped; I have read (struggled through!) the first 300 pages of this book and am sorry I started it. If your only intent in life was to read minute scientific details of every snippet of conversation, experiment, inner thought, etc., by...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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