The Making of the Atomic Bomb

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition
    By Richard Rhodes

    Even before Seaborg and Segre confirmed the fissibility of plutonium, Ernest Lawrence had measured the prevailing American skepticism and conservatism against the increasing enthusiasm of his British friends and responded with ...

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    By Richard Rhodes

    Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    By Richard Rhodes

    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
    By Richard Rhodes

    Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    By Hal Marcovitz

    Describes the scientific discoveries and political circumstances behind the decision to develop atomic weapons; recounts the history of the Manhattan Project; and examines the influence of nuclear weapons on the modern world.

  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    The Making of the Atomic Bomb
    By Richard Rhodes

    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 ...