The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Parts I and II [ Audio Book ]
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Parts I and II [ Audio Book ]
by Richard Rhodes Grover Gardner
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Parts I and II
By Richard Rhodes Grover Gardner
Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc
Number Of Pages:
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN-10 / ASIN: B000NE07KQ
ISBN-13 / EAN:
Binding: Audio Cassette
Amazon.com Review
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
The breadth and scope of this gripping narrative is almost as impressive as the story itself. Rhodes ( Looking for America describes the theoretical origins of the bomb, the lab experiments, the building of the prototype, the test at Alamagordo, the training of the B-29 crews assigned to deliver the first two combat bombs and the missions themselves. There’s much more. Rhodes, gifted with sharp psychological insight and a novelist’s ability to convey character, reveals the personalities and emotional dynamics among Niels Bohr, Leo Szilard, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Ernest Lawrence, Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, Colonel Paul Tibbets and others responsible for conceiving, engineering, testing and ultimately dropping the apocalyptic devices on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In addition he describes the struggle in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to make the first bomb, as well as the political and military events that led inexorably to the destruction of the Japanese cities. This is the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the subject to date. Illustrations. BOMC alternate.
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