
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
25th Anniversary Edition
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Narrated by:
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Holter Graham
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Richard Rhodes
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.
Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
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Note to listeners: upon completing the audible I find that the epilogue, about 30 pages of the post-war attempt at Arms Control is also missing relative to the print edition of 1986 Perhaps this was a method because much of this material is covered in Dark Sun.
Science, history and war making.
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Informative, but wandering
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The narrator, on the other hand, makes an alarming number of blunders in his pronunciation of foreign names, titles and Greek letters. It does not detract from the subject itself, but it is annoying.
Thorough and enjoyable story, mediocre narrator
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A must listen / read
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Paradigm shift
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Spellbinding historical account with a deep-enough review of the underlying atomic physics to make it interesting for those who love to un-peel the science.Great combination of fission physics and history!
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Remarkable historical achievement
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Mind Blowing
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Brilliant
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