Waterstones Atomic
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Spanning ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949, Atomic is the first fully realised popular account of the race between Nazi Germany, Britain, America and the Soviet Union to build atomic weapons. Rich in personality, action, confrontation and deception, Jim Baggott's book tells an epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding.
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781848319929
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ISBN: 9781848319929
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Author: Mr. Colin Barber
Rating: 5
Review: The period covering the genesis and production of the first atomic bombs is well served by literature. The initial British efforts are elegantly described in three books by Margaret Gowing, the official description of the US efforts were covered by Hewlett and Anderson in The New World and this was updated by Richard Rhodes' magisterial The Making of The Atomic Bomb which rightly won the Pullitzer Prize. In The Manhattan Project Stephen Groueff covered the industrial problems in a most accessible book and I found Stalin and the Bomb by David Holloway most rewarding. As I am non-technical and I am trying to piece together the results of the wartime gaseous diffusion experiments which took place at Rhydymwyn I read all of the above and many more with pleasure. I bought the above book when it was published and found it easy to read and understand. The author has brought all of the many strands in different countries together and his account is the first I have read that balances the developments in those countries contemporaneously. I warmly recommend it.
Author: "lukeskythinker"
Rating: 4
Review: Would have liked more of the science rather than the people involved, but still a comprehensive history of A-bomb development.
