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Dark Sun
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Taschenbuch von Richard Rhodes
Sprache: Englisch

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The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files found in the United States and the former Soviet Union. "A dark tale told with gripping intensity".--Washington Post Book World. of photos.
The Pulitzer prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb now tells the defintive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the H-Bomb and the birth of the Cold War, based on secret files found in the United States and the former Soviet Union. "A dark tale told with gripping intensity".--Washington Post Book World. of photos.
Über den Autor
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website [...].
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents

Preface to the Sloan Technology Series

Prologue: Deliveries


Part One

A Choice Between Worlds


1. 'A Smell of Nuclear Powder'

2. Diffusion

3. 'Material of Immense Value'

4. A Russian Connection

5. 'Super Lend-Lease'

6. Rendezvous

7. 'Mass Production'

8. Explosions

9. 'Provide the Bomb'

10. A Pretty Good Description

Part Two

New Weapons Added to the Arsenals


11. Transitions

12. Peculiar Sovereignties

13. Changing History

14. F-1

15. Modus Vivendi

16. Sailing Near the Wind

17. Getting Down to Business

18. 'This Buck Rogers Universe'

19. First Lightning

20. 'Gung-ho for the Super'

Part Three

Scorpions in a Bottle


21. Fresh Horrors

22. Lessons of Limited War

23. Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors

24. Mike

25. Powers of Retaliation

26. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

27. Scorpions in a Bottle

Epilogue: 'The Gradual Removal of Prejudices'

Acknowledgments

Notes

Glossary of Names

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 736
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780684824147
ISBN-10: 0684824140
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rhodes, Richard
Hersteller: Atria Books
Maße: 233 x 177 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Rhodes
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.1996
Gewicht: 0,843 kg
preigu-id: 121025631
Über den Autor
Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website [...].
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents

Preface to the Sloan Technology Series

Prologue: Deliveries


Part One

A Choice Between Worlds


1. 'A Smell of Nuclear Powder'

2. Diffusion

3. 'Material of Immense Value'

4. A Russian Connection

5. 'Super Lend-Lease'

6. Rendezvous

7. 'Mass Production'

8. Explosions

9. 'Provide the Bomb'

10. A Pretty Good Description

Part Two

New Weapons Added to the Arsenals


11. Transitions

12. Peculiar Sovereignties

13. Changing History

14. F-1

15. Modus Vivendi

16. Sailing Near the Wind

17. Getting Down to Business

18. 'This Buck Rogers Universe'

19. First Lightning

20. 'Gung-ho for the Super'

Part Three

Scorpions in a Bottle


21. Fresh Horrors

22. Lessons of Limited War

23. Hydrodynamic Lenses and Radiation Mirrors

24. Mike

25. Powers of Retaliation

26. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer

27. Scorpions in a Bottle

Epilogue: 'The Gradual Removal of Prejudices'

Acknowledgments

Notes

Glossary of Names

Bibliography

Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 736
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780684824147
ISBN-10: 0684824140
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rhodes, Richard
Hersteller: Atria Books
Maße: 233 x 177 x 41 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Rhodes
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.08.1996
Gewicht: 0,843 kg
preigu-id: 121025631
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