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 RichardRhodes.com.
"... what I read already impressed me with the author's knowledge
of much of the history of the science which led to the development
of nuclear energy and nuclear bombs and of the personalities which
contributed in the U.S. to the development of these. I was
particularly impressed by his realization of the importance of Leo
Szilard's contributions which are almost always underestimated but
which he fully realizes and perhaps even overestimates. I hope the
book will find a wide readership."-Eugene P. Wigner, Nobel Laureate
for Physics, 1963
"The Making of the Atomic Bomb is an epic worthy of Milton. Nowhere
else have I seen the whole story put down with such elegance and
gusto and in such revealing detail and simple language which
carries the reader through wonderful and profound scientific
discoveries and their application.
The great figures of the age, scientific, military, and political,
come to life when confronted with the fateful and awesome decisions
which faced them in this agonizing century. This great book dealing
with the most profound problems of the 20th century can help us to
apprehend the opportunities and pitfalls that face the world int he
21st."-I. I. Rabi, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1944
"A great book. Mr. Rhodes has done a beautiful job, and I don't see
how anyone can ever top it."-Luis W. Alvarez, Nobel Laureate for
Physics, 1968
"A monumental and enthralling history [...] Alive and vibrant in
the book are all the scientists...and each human being stands
vividly revealed as a man of science, of conscience, of doubts or
of hubris."-San Francisco Chronicle
"A stirring intellectual adventure, and a clear, fast-paced and
indispensable history of events on which our future depends."-Carl
Sagan
"I found The Making of the Atomic Bomb well written, interesting
and one of the best in the great family of books on the subject. It
is fascinating as a novel, and I have learned from it many things I
did not know. Mr. Rhodes has done his homework conscientiously and
intelligently"-Emilio Segrè, Nobel Laureate for Physics, 1959
"Mr. Rhodes gives careful attention to the role which chemists
played in developing the bomb. the Making of the Atomic Bomb
strikes me as the most complete account of the Manhattan Project to
date."-Glenn T. Seaborg, Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, 1951
"The best, the richest, and the deepest description of the
development of physics in the first half of this century that I
have yet read, and it is certainly the most enjoyable."-Isaac
Asimov
"The comprehensive history of the bomb--and also a work of
literature." -Tracy Kidder
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