Richard Rhodes
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the development of the atomic bomb from Leo Szilard's concept through the drama of the race to build a workable device to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima.
"Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer...
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war–and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons.
In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms...
In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
**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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author Richard Rhodes reveals the fascinating history behind energy transitions over time—wood to coal to oil to electricity and beyond. People have lived and died, businesses have prospered and failed, and nations have risen to world power and declined, all over energy challenges. Ultimately, the history of these challenges tells the story of humanity itself. [...] Human beings have confronted...
Author
Series
Making of the nuclear age volume 2
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
731 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
8) The Ozarks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (part color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
268 pages, 14 pages of plates : illustrations, charts ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents this fully authorized--and timely-biography of the Harvard biologist and naturalist who has become a leading voice on the crucial importance to all life of biodiversity and has worked tirelessly to synthesize the fields of science and the humanities in a fruitful way.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This culminating volume in Richard Rhodes's monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age from the second war in Iraq to the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, from the changing roles of the five original nuclear powers to our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia. Finally, Rhodes imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The definitive collection of writings on the Manhattan Project by the pre-eminent scientists, historians, and the everyday observers who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age.
Begun in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than 130,000 people, including our foremost scientists and thinkers, and cost nearly $2 billion, while operating under a shroud of absolute secrecy. This groundbreaking collection of documents,
