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    Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
    Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
    Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
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    Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition

    Written by Richard Rhodes

    Narrated by Holter Graham

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    About this audiobook

    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award**

    The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.

    This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

    Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology—from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence.

    From nuclear power’s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story.

    Richard Rhodes’s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 9, 2016
    ISBN9781442345485
    Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
    Author

    Richard Rhodes

    Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.

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    • 5/5
      I loved the in depth explanations of alot of the procedures, experiments etc.
      Knowing I personally will never touch that realm it gives you an inside peek at another world.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      holy moly...I don't have words. What a story Jeezy Pete's!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The detail within which this book delves is second to none. Introducing us to the challenges faced by European Jews, the book begins with the Jewish diaspora beginning in 200 BC. It then follows the plight of these people as they are hounded throughout the world until finally culminating with the treatment of the Jews by the Nazis. The book goes into similar detail in nearly every aspect they cover. It is a long book and necessarily so. But if you take the time to read this you will walk away with a far better understanding of world events that let up to the first nuclear bomb.

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    • 5/5
      Very informative and well read. I learned a lot about what was happening all those years ago!
    • 5/5
      If you're looking for a fascinating, in-depth, blow by blow account of the development of atomic power from the initial outset of theoretical research right through the political and personal stories to the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then this is the book for you.
    • 5/5
      Interesting and touching, a comprehensive review of one of the most incredible chapters of modern history
    • 5/5
      Really detailed book on the history of the atomic bomb, it’s development, and the science developed to create it.
    • 5/5
      A thorough boots-on-the-ground view, starting in the early days of theory, to the lives of the physicists, to the building of the first atomic bomb. Then a millisecond by millisecond understanding of the awesome power of the detonation.

      The last chapter is gruesome on-the-ground with survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.

      A brilliant book. Decided to read it because of all the AI panic. We build the mechanical demons because we can.
    • 5/5
      This book leaves the reader smarter and wiser as the lessons from the dawn of the atomic age are taught by story and explanation. It also leaves the reader a bit sad and apprehensive. We ignore this topic at our peril.
    • 5/5
      Outstanding description of the beginning of nuclear physics to the execution of the atomic bomb
    • 5/5
      Excellent book, very good job on reading!!!Thanks for this!!! !