Making of the Atomic Bomb (The Making of the Nuclear Age Book 1)

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. This must be the definitive account of how the atomic bomb was developed. You also get a very solid history of physics and to some extent chemistry in the early decades of the twentieth century. The personalities of those involved with the Manhattan Project are not neglected, and come across with all the strengths, flaws, hopes and fears you might expect. Essential reading if you have any interest at all in this subject.

And don't be put off by the length - I found the book hard to put down.

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Absolutely fantastically researched book and a surprsingly easy read. Beginning with nuclear physics from a historical standpoint a hundred years and more before the bomb makes a lot of sense and gives a feel for exactly what a massive undertaking the bomb was It's hard to believe even now what a vast project it was - how tragic that it was for such a cause!

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I've read a lot of physics books over the years to try and understand nuclear physics at a basic level, but I've got to say this book gave me a better grasp than some of the text books. A must read for anyone interested in the history or the science of atomic weapons.

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However, the Kindle edition is completely ruined not for the first time by botched formatting, in this case diagrams, equation etc so small that they can't be read. Of course, there's no way of knowing of these issues before one buys the Kindle version, not that seems to an issue with Amazon. Excellent book about the creation of the atomic bomb.

The author explains much of the physics of the atomic world in language that anyone with a good science education will understand.

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The book is littered throughout with errant apostrophes which the author and certainly the proofreader ought to have picked up. I only part way through this book but it captured me almost instantly with it story of Leo Szilard and his desire to be heard and anxieties on the occasions this didn't happen amongst his peers in the scientific community.

The side story of dinner with the Curie family is genuinely very interesting but also haunting when considered in light of their work. With still lots to read it's currently coming across as a semi-fictional story of young men's and Marie of course!

I couldn't help but flick a little further ahead and as a chemist myself, salivate at the prospect of understanding the development and theory behind atomic fission and ultimately it's militarisation. The mixing of light moments with the downright haunting act only to better deliver the messages throughout each chapter I'm not the fastest nor indeed the most persistent of readers but this is one book I'll be sure to get through at my best rate!

This is a gripping book and my rating is not meant to reflect the content or writing. However, the Kindle edition is teeming with avoidable typos and other problems.

Apparently little attention has been spent on editing the e-book, which is quite upsetting as the price is almost the same as the print version. If this is the quality Amazon produces for professional ebooks, I recommend not to buy them. Amazing story, with many twists. With hindsight, it seems inevitable that US would be the first, but in fact Germany or even Japan could have go there first.

Lots about the difficulty of deciding on the right technology and much about the contribution of the many great individuals. Also, a very fair analysis about whether using the bomb in Japan was a good thing or a bad thing and the ethical dilemmas of the scientists, military leaders and politicians involved. Horrifying inevitability, made explicable. Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

Description Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the people, and the socio-political 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.

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From nuclear power's earliest foreshadowing in the work of H. 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 Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story. Richard Rhodes's ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship.

Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.