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Jim Baggott

Atomic

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

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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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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-84831-993-6
  • EAN: 9781848319936
  • Produktnummer: 18034301
  • Verlag: Icon Books Ltd
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 576 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'614 KB
  • Abbildungen: 16-page b/w photo section

Über 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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