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Présentation de l'éditeur With a brand new introduction from the author, this is the complete story of how the bomb was developed. It is told in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, 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 yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject. Revue de presse 'A stirring intellectual adventure, and a clear, fast-paced and indispensable history of events on which our future depends' Carl Sagan 'The best, the richest, and the deepest description of the development of physics in the first half of this century that I have yet read, and certainly the most enjoyable' Isaac Asimov 'The comprehensive history of the bomb-and also a work of literature' Tracy Kidder 'A monumental and enthralling history...alive and vibrant in the book are all the scientists...and each human being stands vividly revealed as a man of science, of conscience, of doubts or of hubris' San Francisco Chronicle Biographie de l'auteur Richard Rhodes is the author of several books. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Présentation de l'éditeur With a brand new introduction from the author, this is the complete story of how the bomb was developed. It is told in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, 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 yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject. Revue de presse 'A stirring intellectual adventure, and a clear, fast-paced and indispensable history of events on which our future depends' Carl Sagan 'The best, the richest, and the deepest description of the development of physics in the first half of this century that I have yet read, and certainly the most enjoyable' Isaac Asimov 'The comprehensive history of the bomb-and also a work of literature' Tracy Kidder 'A monumental and enthralling history...alive and vibrant in the book are all the scientists...and each human being stands vividly revealed as a man of science, of conscience, of doubts or of hubris' San Francisco Chronicle Biographie de l'auteur Richard Rhodes is the author of several books. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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The Making Of The Atomic Bomb-
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Simon & Schuster
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Publication
05 juillet 2012
Pages
896
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23.2 x 15.1 x 5.6 cm
Poids
660
ISBN-13
9781471111235
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