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The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
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Jacques Roy
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Richard Rhodes
About this listen
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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In this illuminating audiobook, Tyson and coauthor James Trefil, a renowned physicist and science popularizer, take on the big questions that humanity has been posing for millennia - How did life begin? What is our place in the universe? Are we alone? - and provide answers based on the most current data, observations, and theories.
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Not worth it
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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
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At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology.
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Audible’s Best Science Offering, A Gem
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In The Quantum Universe, Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw approach the world of quantum mechanics in the same way they did in Why Does E=mc2? and make fundamental scientific principles accessible - and fascinating - to everyone.The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way.
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Not suitable as an audio book
- By SPN on 03-29-22
By: Brian Cox, and others
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- R. Williams
- 12-10-24
Blockbuster Book
I loved The Making of the Atomic Bomb, but wow this book is amazing. Really important document of a crazy period of history. The science in it is great, as a matter of fact, would have been happy to get some more.
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- Daniel Callaghan
- 12-15-24
Highly Recommend
Rhodes intertwines the history of the Cold War, the politics of the time, espionage, morality and the science of the hydrogen bomb into a well told and fast paced story. As others have commented, it seems to focus more on the espionage of the Soviet Union in stealing the secrets of the atomic bomb than the actual science of the hydrogen bomb. I personally felt it added to the story and the backdrop of the hydrogen bomb, but if that isn’t what you are interested in, it may be off-putting. Overall I didn’t like this quite as much as his first book, but that is a high bar to surpass and I would still highly recommend this as a follow up.
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- Astroman
- 12-08-24
OK if you like politics, not good for the science
Had mostly politics and background and a lot about the Soviet spy ring during Manhattan. Not very much on the actual building of the hydrogen bombs. If you like spy stuff and political background, you will like this. If you want technical and scientific background, you should look elsewhere.
Basically a pale shadow of his original "The Making of the Atomic Bomb"
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