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Title Description
Here for the first time, in rich detail, alive with human, political and scientific drama, is the complete story of how "the bomb" was developed.
Few great discoveries have evolved so quickly. What began as a speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan project and then into the first atomic bomb with frightening rapidity. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, the author 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.
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Reviewer: Jodie King (see other books I've reviewed) | April 10, 2004 |
| This is a book where much can be learned. Having little to no physics background made it difficult at times, but it was worth the journey. |
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Reviewer: Harry Weinerman (see other books I've reviewed) | March 23, 2003 |
| The reader is excellent and the review of the history is fascinating. The story gets bogged down too much on the physics and the exacting details. I found myself fast forwarding. |
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Reviewer: Anonymous | September 2, 2002 |
| This is the one of the few books I will purchase and read again and again. It is very well written and not too fluffy in the physics. |
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Reviewer: Patrick Michell | March 16, 2002 |
| One of my favorite non-fiction books. Richard Rhodes deftly explains particle physics and the real "secret of the atomic bomb," sets the historical stage for the "why's" behind weapons of mass destruction, delves into the amazing, inventive mind of wartime America, and provides thought provoking insights into the fears that Germany would get the bomb first and why the US used the bomb on Japan. Its a million pages that you wish would never end. |
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Reviewer: Anonymous (see other books I've reviewed) | March 27, 2001 |
| Don't be put off by the title. This is a very absorbing book. The first half is a voyage of discovery in modern physics. The reader tags along with all the great thinkers, especially Einstein, as they figure out energy and atoms. Then WW2 starts, and the second half of the book is the race to build a bomb, out of materials they only guessed were possible, using theories that were untested, and pressured by the sure knowledge that the Nazis were about to complete their own doomsday bomb. If you think science is a little fun, you'll LOVE this book. |
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