The making of the atomic bomb / Richard Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Richard, 1937-

Contributor:

Zinman Atomic Energy Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atomic bomb--History.

Atomic bomb.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor) (Zinman copy)

Physical Description:

886 pages, 42 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Simon & Schuster, [1986]

Summary:

Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.

Contents:

Part 1. Profound and necessary truth

1. Moonshine

2. Atoms and void

3. Tvi

4. The long grave already dug

5. Men from Mars

6. Machines

7. Exodus

8. Stirring and digging

9. An extensive burst

Part 2. A peculiar sovereignty

10. Neutrons

11. Cross sections

12. A communication from Britain

13. The new world

14. Physics and desert country

15. Different animals

16. Revelations

17. The evils of this time

Part 3. Life and death

18. Trinity

19. Tongues of fire

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 848-861) and index.

Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1988.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Zinman copy has dust jacket.

Other Format:

Online version: Rhodes, Richard, 1937- Making of the atomic bomb.

ISBN:

0671441337

9780671441333

0684813785

9780684813783

0671657194

9780671657192

OCLC:

13793436