The Making of the Atomic Bomb (edit title)

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 13 books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Thursday, October 22 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Tuesday, October 13 2009.

• Added an award: Pulitzer Prize
• Added category of an award: Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction
• Added year of an award: Pulitzer Prize 1988

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 13 books, including The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Tuesday, October 13 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Richard Rhodes: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Friday, July 17 2009.

• In London, where Southampton Row passes Russell Square, across from the British Museum in Bloomsbury, Leo Szilard waited irritably one gray Depression morning for the stoplight to change.