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Dark Sun; The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
by Rhodes, Richard
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 068480400X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684804002
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New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1995. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 731, [3] p. Illustrations. Notes. Glossary of Names. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American journalist, historian, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and most recently, The Twilight of the Bombs. He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. He frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy. Rhodes was admitted to Yale University and received a Scholarship, which awarded him full tuition, room, board, and other expenses for four years. He published 23 books and many articles for national magazines. This book is published as part of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program, the Sloan Technology Series. Derived from a Kirkus review: It becomes clear that the battle between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller over the development of the hydrogen bomb and the direction national policy would take in the 1950s is a significant focus. Their battle for the soul of the American public was Oppenheimer's tragic undoing, stripped him of his security clearances, and removed him from US policy-making. Teller's semi-Pyrrhic victory left him a virtual pariah in the world of physics. Rhodes brings to that story sound judgment, a sharp eye for intrinsically fascinating detail, and a nice way with words. His down-to-earth manner also leads Rhodes to nose out little-remarked nuggets, telling us, for example, that the famous atomic spy Klaus Fuchs and mathematician John von Neumann filed a patent together for the H-bomb in 1946. Rhodes manages to fit in a wealth of interesting detail.
Synopsis
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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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Dark Sun; The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Author
- Rhodes, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 068480400X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684804002
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Luis Alvarez, Atomic Bomb, Hans Bethe, Edward Teller, Atomic Energy Commission, Norris Bradbury, Gordon Dean, Leslie Groves, Enrico Fermi, Klaus Fuchs, James Forrestal, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Lilienthal, Kurchatov, Robert Oppenheimer, Beria
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