Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear en...
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the Bomb with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers -- Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and yon Neumann -- stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes takes us on that journey step by step, minute by minute, and gives us the definitive story of man's most awesome discovery and invention. The Making of the Atomic Bomb has been compared in its sweep and importance to William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. It is at once a narrative tour de force and a document as powerful as its subject.
作者简介
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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 received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN.
He graduated from Yale University and has received numerous fellowshi...
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 received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN.
He graduated from Yale University and has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.
目录
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Contents
Part One: Profound and Necessary Truth
1. Moonshine
2. Atoms and Void
3. Tvi
4. The Long Grave Already Dug
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Contents
Part One: Profound and Necessary Truth
1. Moonshine
2. Atoms and Void
3. Tvi
4. The Long Grave Already Dug
5. Men from Mars
6. Machines
7. Exodus
8. Stirring and Digging
9. An Extensive Burst
Part Two: A Peculiar Sovereignty
10. Neutrons
11. Cross Sections
12. A Communication from Britain
13. The New World
14. Physics and Desert Country
15. Different Animals
16. Revelations
17. The Evils of This Time
Part Three: Life and Death
18. Trinity
19. Tongues of Fire
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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去年年底去了洛斯阿拉莫斯Los Alamos国家实验室，在这个位于新墨西哥高原小镇的历史博物馆里，我购买了这本题为the Making of the Atomic Bomb的800页大部头英语书。这部获得普利策奖的书初版于1986年，而我购买的是25周年纪念版。 作者Richard Rhodes并不是物理专业出身，在25...
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这学期起码要做三个关于核物理的Pre，全都指望它了
0 有用 AgentDS 2023-10-08 00:28:08 美国
谢谢、物理史科普、、、
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不但很好地简述了原子弹的原理与制造，而且还很详实地提供了各种环环相扣的背景知识（卢瑟福金箔实验科学背景，B-29战略轰炸这样的历史背景）。只可惜自己物理不好或者英文理解依旧薄弱，很多地方也只能看个大概，无法把作者的描述在脑子里想象出反应的过程和装置的构造。
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读的是世界知识出版社1990年译。20世纪上半叶物理学的发展和科学家的集体传记.以放射现象为主线讲述核物理的发展
0 有用 小则又沐风 2023-10-19 19:34:57 日本
这学期起码要做三个关于核物理的Pre，全都指望它了
0 有用 AgentDS 2023-10-08 00:28:08 美国
谢谢、物理史科普、、、
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0 有用 郦十久 2022-10-28 06:33:57 美国
scientists as policy makers lack no paradoxes
0 有用 坏猪的坏_开心的 2016-12-18 00:41:43
不但很好地简述了原子弹的原理与制造，而且还很详实地提供了各种环环相扣的背景知识（卢瑟福金箔实验科学背景，B-29战略轰炸这样的历史背景）。只可惜自己物理不好或者英文理解依旧薄弱，很多地方也只能看个大概，无法把作者的描述在脑子里想象出反应的过程和装置的构造。