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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 Von Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.
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National Book Award Winner, open_syllabus_project, Long Now Manual for Civilization, award:national_book_award=nonfiction, Atomic bomb, award:national_book_award=1987, History, Atomic bomb -- History., Physique nucléaire, Erfindung, Kernwapens, Histoire, Nuclear Warfare, Kernwaffe, Geschichte, Bombe atomique, Design and construction, New York Times reviewed, Bomba atómica, HistoriaShowing 5 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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The making of the atomic bomb
2012, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
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1988, Simon & Schuster
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"In London, where Southampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bloomsbury, Leo Szilard waited irritably one gray Depression morning for the stoplight to change."
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