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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?
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, 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.
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
- London: Simon and Schuster
- Published
- 1995
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439126226
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Engineering, Military, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.32 / 5 (12,421 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14