Making of the nuclear age
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Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 1
Language
English
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Description
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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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English