The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 25th Anniversary Edition by Richard Rhodes, Holter Graham (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)
Requirements: M4B reader, 1016 MB, 64kbps, 37 hrs 23 mins.
Overview: 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 25 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 yon Neumann – stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. ………
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction > History
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes