Author: Pocket BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Atomic Age Opens
Author: Pocket BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Atomic Age Opens
Author: The Atomic Age Opens
Author: Pocket books, inc., New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Adventures in the Atomic Age
Author: Glenn Theodore SeaborgPublisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
ISBN: 9780374299910
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The renowned physicist describes his Nobel Prize-winning career, his work with the Manhattan Project, his discovery of the element that makes atomic bombs explode, and his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission.
The Atomic Age Opens
Author: Pocket BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atomic bomb
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Atomic Age Opens
Author: Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb
Author: Albert I BergerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317520092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons – and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the Atomic Age and the Cold War up through the present day, arguing that an understanding of the history of nuclear weapons is crucial to modern efforts to manage them. This book examines topics including nuclear strategy debates, weapon system procurement decisions, and arms control conferences through the people and leaders who experienced them. Providing a chronological survey, Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb starts with the major scientific discoveries of the late 19th century that laid the groundwork for nuclear development. It then traces the history of nuclear weapons from their inception to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and the reaction to them by key players on both sides. It continues its narrative into the second half of the twentieth century, and the role of nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War, engaging in the debate over whether nuclear weapons are an effective deterrent. Finally, the closing chapters consider the atomic bomb’s place in the modern world and the transformation of warfare in an age of advanced technology. This clear and engaging survey will be invaluable reading for students of the Cold War and twentieth-century history.
The Atomic Age Opens. Science Editor: G. Wendt, General Editor: D. Porter Geddes. Assistant Editor: J. Mitchell Clark, H.D. Livingston, M.E. Marquette [a.o.].
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Author: G. WendtThe Making of the Atomic Bomb
Author: Richard RhodesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
**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 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.
We Were There at the Opening of the Atomic Age
Author: James MunvesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description