
Dark Sun
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Narrated by:
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Jacques Roy
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By:
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Richard Rhodes
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.
Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
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Not as good as the History of Atomic Bomb. Narration could be better.
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The real back story of the Cold War
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really good with a lot of details
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What makes Rhodes telling compelling was this tome dedicates half its length to the espionage from the 'allied' Soviets starting from the start of the Manhattan Project, and worse still the mistaken belief held by the US government that science isn't 'discovered' around the world as intelligent people are everywhere.
So having bought this hardcover in 1995, and the later cassette set (which I would ultimately encode to mp3) I'm sitting in for the full story. The Rest of the Story as one commentator would say.
Now It Can Be Fully Told...
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Very well documented history from many points of view.
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Highly Recommend
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Blockbuster Book
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Excellent retelling of a side of history I didn’t know much about
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The major issue I have with this is the narrator and the mixing of the sound. the narrator is soft spoken and monotonal. The mixing of the sound does him zero good and if you turn up the volume the bass muffles his words. I had to turn off my bass and turn up my treble all the way to get a clear narration that didn't sound like Charlie Browns teacher.
Better than Folly of the Bombs but not as good as TMotAB
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the mix on the audiobook is extremely bass-heavy and was a bit distracting.
Good but more of a bummer than its predecessor
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