Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.
'A stirring intellectual adventure...clear, fast-paced and
indispensable'
*Carl Sagan*
'A monumental and enthralling history... Alive and vibrant in the
book are all the scientists...and each human being stands vividly
revealed as a man of science, of conscience, of doubts, or of
hubris'
*San Francisco Chronicle*
'The comprehensive history of the bomb - and also a work of
literature'
*Tracy Kidder*
'The best, the richest and the deepest description of the
development of physics in the first half of this century that I
have yet read, and it is certainly the most enjoyable'
*Isaac Asimov*
'A great book. Mr Rhodes has done a beautiful job, and I don't
see how anyone can ever top it'
*Luis W. Alvarez, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1968*
'What I read already impressed me with the author's knowledge of
much of the history of the science which led to the development of
nuclear energy and nuclear bombs and of the personalities which
contributed in the U.S. to the development of these. I was
particularly impressed by his realization of the importance of Leo
Szilard's contributions which are almost always underestimated but
which he fully realizes and perhaps even overestimates. I hope the
book will find a wide readership'
*Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1963*
'I found The Making of the Atomic Bomb well written,
interesting and one of the best in the great family of books on the
subject. It is fascinating as a novel, and I have learned from it
many things I did not know. Mr Rhodes has done his homework
conscientiously and intelligently'
*Emilio Segrè, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1959*
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