Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 - Softcover

Baggott, Jim

 
9781848319929: Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1848319924 ISBN 13: 9781848319929
Verlag: Icon Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 Beyond Measure: Modern Physics,Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (OUP, 2004).

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1848319924
ISBN 13 
9781848319929
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
576
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