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Here for the very first time, in rich human, political, and clinical detail, is the complete story of how the bomb originated, 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 improved so quickly - or have been so misunderstood. From your theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there is a course of scarcely more than 25 years. What started out as merely a fascinating speculative problem in physics grew in to the Manhattan Job and then in to the bomb with frightening rapidity, while researchers known and then their peers - Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann - stepped using their company ivory towers in to the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step-by-step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive storyline of man's most wonderful discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Climb and Fall of the Third Reich. It really is at once a narrative head to de power and a file as powerful as its subject matter.
