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The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Dating from 1986, this is a massive (near 800 pages) popular history of the World War II atomic bomb project. The focus is on the American effort, though there are brief detours into German and Japanese nuclear research. Compared to his other works, like the magisterial (and quite hefty) The Making of the Atomic Bomb, this book breezes by in 272 chatty pages. Reblogged from A Superfluous Man: I will monitor my Amazon Associates account today--if at least one Reader does not buy a copy of this fine book, I will have indisputably proven my superfluity. It is told in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. You can download this pdf ebooks file easily from rapidshare, usenet, bittorent. He steers himself away from what is haunted/ By the old ghost of what has been before,--/ Abandoning, as always, and undaunted,/ One fog-walled island more. This is the complete story of how the bomb was developed. Download ebooks The Making of the Atomic Bomb pdf epub free. I have a few films on this subject but would like the names of more, especially any British films about the Atomic bomb if such films exist. Download The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes pdf free.