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Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb - by Richard Rhodes

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by Richard Rhodes (Paperback - August 1996)
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An engrossing history of the scientific discoveries, political maneuverings, and cold-war espionage leading to the creation of mankind's most destructive weapon.

Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book. Author Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his previous atomic tome, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

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Unchallenged expositor of things atomic, Rhodes delivers a megaton of science, postwar politics, espionage, and moral drama in this epic of the "Super," as physicists dubbed the fusion weapon they knew was possible early in the Manhattan Project. Appropriately, the first third of this superlative history involves American and Russian efforts to develop the fission bomb. Spying was integral to Soviet progress, and last year an NKVD assassin (Pavel Sudoplatov) alleged that Oppenheimer was a source... read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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