Twentyfive years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project From the turnofthecentury discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodes's Pulitzer Prizewinning book details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bombChapter 6 Machines Summary With Sir Ernest Rutherford's as Director, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, England, becomes the center for experimental physics after World War I There, in 1919, he announces that he has split the atom Rutherford and his coworkers disintegrate other light atoms until they hit a barrier the naturally radioactive sources Americans developAtomic Bomb The Story of the Manhattan Project How nuclear physics became a global geopolitical gamechanger Bruce Cameron Reed Chapter 1 Introduction and overview This chapter offers a brief tour of why and for whom this book was written, a survey of some essential background scientific concepts and an overview of how this book is organized
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb By Richard Rhodes
