The Making of the Atomic Bomb

The definitive historical past of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Mission. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear vitality to the dropping of the primary bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize–profitable ebook the science, the individuals, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the event of the atomic bomb.

This sweeping account begins within the nineteenth century, with the invention of nuclear fission, and continues to World Battle Two and the Individuals’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competitors launched the Manhattan Mission and the practically in a single day development of an enormous military-industrial complicated that culminated within the fateful dropping of the primary bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Studying like a character-driven suspense novel, the ebook introduces the gamers on this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology—from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum concept and the applying of thermonuclear fission, together with Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence.

From nuclear energy’s earliest foreshadowing within the work of H.G. Wells to the brilliant glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Chilly Battle, this dread invention perpetually modified the course of human historical past, and
The Making of The Atomic Bomb gives a panoramic backdrop for that story.

Richard Rhodes’s capacity to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched solely by his rigorous scholarship. Instructed in wealthy human, political, and scientific element that any reader can comply with,
The Making of the Atomic Bombis a thought-provoking and masterful work.