Richard Rhodes
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time-wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. [...] Human beings have confronted the...
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English
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The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age.
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia, Great Britain, France, China,...
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers—Russia, Great Britain, France, China,...
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Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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 people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to...
This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to...
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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 people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to...
This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to...
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Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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The "story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters, writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it ... The idealism of the cause--defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war--and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work ... The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics and strategy...
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Making of the nuclear age volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
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English
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In this work of history, science, and politics, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb tells for the first time the secret story of how and why the hydrogen bomb was made. This book traces the path by which "the Bomb," the supreme artifact of twentieth-century science and technology, became the defining issue of the Cold War, and reveals how close the world came to nuclear destruction before the United States and the former...
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