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Can I read The Making of the Atomic Bomb on EtoBox?
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Making of the Atomic Bomb about?
••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 gl
Who reads The Making of the Atomic Bomb?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Rhodes
- Publisher
- New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671441333
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Fiction, Physics
- Rating
- 4.32 / 5 (12,421 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14