Atomic
The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Published on 2. July 2015
576 pages
978-1-84831-993-6 (ISBN)
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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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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).
Content
- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Prologue: Letter from Berlin
- Part I: Mobilisation
- Chapter 1: The Uranverein
- Chapter 2: Element
- Chapter 3: Critical Mass
- Chapter 4: A Visit to Copenhagen
- Chapter 5: Tube Alloys
- Part II: Weapon
- Chapter 6: A Modest Request
- Chapter 7: The Italian Navigator
- Chapter 8: Los Alamos Ranch School
- Chapter 9: ???????
- Chapter 10: Escape from Copenhagen
- Part III: War
- Chapter 11: Uncle Nick
- Chapter 12: Mortal Crimes
- Chapter 13: Alsos and AZUSA
- Chapter 14: The Final Push
- Chapter 15: Trinity
- Chapter 16: Hypocentre
- Chapter 17: Operation Epsilon
- Part IV: Proliferation
- Chapter 18: ??????? ? ?????????!
- Chapter 19: Iron Curtain
- Chapter 20: Crossroads
- Chapter 21: Arzamas-16
- Chapter 22: Joe-1
- Epilogue: Mutual Assured Destruction
- Timeline
- List of Key Characters
- Notes and Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
