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THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB - RICHARD RHODES ...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE    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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