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The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and 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 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,…

Впервые на русском: полномасштабная картина социально-политических событий конца XIX — XX века, представленная через призму создания атомной бомбы. Главное произведение видного американского историка Ричарда Роудса, за которое он был удостоен Пулитцеровской премии, сравнимое по охвату и значению со «Взлетом и падением Третьего рейха» Уильяма Ширера. От предсказаний появления ядерной энергетики в романах Герберта Уэллса и первых исследований в области науки деления ядра до Манхэттенского проекта, испытания ядерной бомбы «Тринити» на американском полигоне Аламогордо, атомных бомбардировок Хиросимы и Нагасаки и гонки вооружений в период холодной войны — Роудс проводит нас по этому пути шаг за шагом, раскрывая детали самого поразительного изобретения человека, которое навсегда изменило облик мира и ход человеческой истории, и не обходя вниманием этическую сторону вопроса в условиях стремительного развития технологий.

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 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…

In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. 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 merely as 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 von Neumann—stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight.…

Впервые на русском: полномасштабная картина социально-политических событий конца XIX–XX века, представленная через призму создания атомной бомбы. Главное произведение видного американского историка Ричарда Роудса, за которое он был удостоен Пулитцеровской премии, сравнимое по охвату и значению со «Взлетом и падением Третьего рейха» Уильяма Ширера. От предсказаний появления ядерной энергетики в романах Герберта Уэллса и первых исследований в области науки деления ядра до Манхэттенского проекта, испытания ядерной бомбы «Тринити» на американском полигоне Аламогордо, атомных бомбардировок Хиросимы и Нагасаки и гонки вооружений в период холодной…

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 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 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.