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Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Jim Baggott
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Description for Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Paperback. Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. Num Pages: 576 pages, 16 black & white plates, 16-page b/w photo section. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBW; JWMN; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 40. Weight in Grams: 496.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Icon Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Duxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848319929
SKU
V9781848319929
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99-35
About Jim Baggott
Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist,he runs an independent management consultancy practice but maintains a broad interest in science, philosophy and history and continues to write on these subjects in his spare time, for, amongother publications, New Scientist magazine. His previous bookshave been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin, 2005) and ... Read more
Reviews for Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
I [have] read everything on the subject that I could lay my hands on, but I never read such a good, comprehensive account as Jim Baggott's... Highly recommended.
Reader’s Digest High drama... fascinating reading.
BBC Focus Magazine Grimly compelling. Thorough and accessible.
Daily Telegraph The best popular science book of the year to date by far.
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Reader’s Digest High drama... fascinating reading.
BBC Focus Magazine Grimly compelling. Thorough and accessible.
Daily Telegraph The best popular science book of the year to date by far.
... Read more