The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes
Edition year 2026
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Jack Smyth
Volumes 2
Pages 994
Dimensions 24.1 × 17.2 cm

Edition details

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. (2v.). Illustrated by Jack Smyth. Introduced By the author. Vol. 1: Colour frontispiece and 20 pages of black & white photographs. Vol. 2: Monochrome frontispiece, 20 pages of photographs and an 8-page foldout. Bound in red cloth printed and blocked in black with a design by Jack Smyth. Black slipcase printed in red with a design by Jack Smyth. Black endpapers. 24.1x17.2cm. 994pp.

About the book

Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a comprehensive history of the scientific discoveries, political decisions and wartime programme that produced the first nuclear weapons. Beginning with the development of modern atomic physics, Rhodes follows scientists including Rutherford, Bohr, Fermi, Szilard and Oppenheimer through the Manhattan Project and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The book combines science, biography and military history to examine one of the twentieth century's most consequential technological achievements.

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