Richard Rhodes

Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.

title : Naked to the Bone : Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century Sloan Technology Series author : Kevles, Bettyann. publisher : Rutgers University Press isbn10 | asin : 0813523583 print isbn13 : 9780813523583 ebook isbn13 : 9780585028033 language : English subject Diagnostic imaging--History, Radiography, Medical-History, Diagnostic Imaging--history, History of Medicine, 20th Cent. publication date : 1997 lcc : RC78.7.D53K48 1997eb ddc : 616.07/54/0904 subject : Diagnostic imaging--History, Radiography, Medical-History, Diagnostic Imaging--history, History of Medicine, 20th Cent.

The new morning of the world

A lecture delivered at the annual conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Spokane, Washington, 9 August 1995.

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

With a brand new introduction from the author, this is the complete story of how the bomb was developed. It is told in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, 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 twenty-five 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 mans most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirers The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de forceand a document as powerful as its subject.