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Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Release : 1984
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 68X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Day the Sun Rose Twice by : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Download or read book The Day the Sun Rose Twice written by Ferenc Morton Szasz. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning history of the Manhattan Project.
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Release : 1995-04-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 959/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Day the Sun Rose Twice by : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Download or read book The Day the Sun Rose Twice written by Ferenc Morton Szasz. This book was released on 1995-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western History Association’s Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twentieth-century American West Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated at Trinity Site in an isolated stretch of the central New Mexico desert. It may have been the single most important event of the twentieth century. The Day the Sun Rose Twice tells the fascinating story of the events leading up to this first test explosion, the characters and roles of the people involved, and the aftermath of the bomb’s successful demonstration. With J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” at last getting his Hollywood close-up in Christopher Nolan’s new blockbuster film Oppenheimer, readers can discover the background behind the world’s first atomic blast in Ferenc Morton Szasz’s award-winning history. “Tightly focused, lucidly written, and thoroughly researched,” according to the New York Times Book Review, the book provides “a valuable introduction to how our nuclear dilemma began.”
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Release : 1995-04-01
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Book Rating : 097/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Day the Sun Rose Twice by : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Download or read book Day the Sun Rose Twice written by Ferenc Morton Szasz. This book was released on 1995-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this tightly focused, lucidly written and thoroughly researched book, Ferenc Morton Szasz, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, describes the events, personalities and scientific processes that led to the detonation of the first atomic bomb in an isolated stretch of New Mexican desert...' ---New York Times Book Review
Author : Donald Thomas
Release : 2013-07-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 44X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Day the Sun Rose Twice by : Donald Thomas
Download or read book The Day the Sun Rose Twice written by Donald Thomas. This book was released on 2013-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Karl Rainer Andor came to Berlin for the last time it was sacrifice, not victory, that was uppermost in his mind. He intended to use the plutonium bomb he had elaborately planted to effect the reunification of Germany, but he didn't expect to survive. The 'allied' powers are concerned as much with scoring off each other as with finding the bomb - or with seducing or frightening Andor into telling them where it is. And eventually they are faced with the impossible task of evacuating the historic capital of Germany.
Author : Richard Rhodes
Release : 2012-09-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 224/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Making of the Atomic Bomb by : Richard Rhodes
Download or read book The Making of the Atomic Bomb written by Richard Rhodes. This book was released on 2012-09-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology—from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence. From nuclear power’s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story. Richard Rhodes’s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.
