The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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Beschreibung
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and 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 von Neumann - stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.
Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. Told in rich human, political and scientific detail, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a narrative tour de force and a document with literary power commensurate with its subject.
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The beginning is absolutely mesmerizing - looking over the shoulders of Rutherford, of Bohr, of all the greats that developed quantum theory and the theory of atoms. The middle bit dragged a bit for me. I wanted to read the book for the physics and for the life of the physicists, while WWII history is frankly a tad dry for me. The ending of the book, trinity, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is a gripping, cruel end to this marvel of literature.
Beschreibung
The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and 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 von Neumann - stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.
Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. Told in rich human, political and scientific detail, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a narrative tour de force and a document with literary power commensurate with its subject.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
The beginning is absolutely mesmerizing - looking over the shoulders of Rutherford, of Bohr, of all the greats that developed quantum theory and the theory of atoms. The middle bit dragged a bit for me. I wanted to read the book for the physics and for the life of the physicists, while WWII history is frankly a tad dry for me. The ending of the book, trinity, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is a gripping, cruel end to this marvel of literature.