The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes comes out in paperback again next week. When it first came out, this book won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award.
This book remains the seminal and complete story of how the atomic 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.
This book remains the seminal and complete story of how the atomic 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.
.I loved The Making of the Atomic Bomb when it first came out in paperback and I read it in the early 1990s. It is still one of my favorite books of all time. Why? It is a fantastic combination of history, politics, biography, project management, science and morality.
One of the best things about it, it is very readable even for non-technical people. Pick up and read The Making of the Atomic Bomb when it comes out again. You won’t regret it.
One of the best things about it, it is very readable even for non-technical people. Pick up and read The Making of the Atomic Bomb when it comes out again. You won’t regret it.
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