Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
351	3	9,937	(3.98)	1

Add to your library

Members

all members

Recently added by: brigid223, koheleth, MDCurtin, norsk56, liphols, mjnemelka, Otis2, 323, Nessus, msponhour

Member tags

numbers | all tags

(2) 20th century(2) 20th century history(2) @j18(1) @sci(1) america(4) American(2) American history(11) arms race(2) Atomic(2) atomic bomb(6) bomb(4) cold war(24) espionage(4) hiroshima(1) historical(2) history(80) history of science(5) hydrogen bomb(14) los alamos(2) manhattan project(2) military(9) Military History(3) modern history(2) non-fiction(29) nuclear(9) nuclear physics(5) nuclear weapons(15) office W1(1) own(2) physics(17) politics(5) popular science(2) read(2) russia(2) science(37) Shelf12(1) Technology(6) trade paperback(2) united states(2) unread(8) von Braun(1) war(5) Warfare(3) Weapons(2) wmd(2) wwii(4)

LibraryThing recommendations

Member recommendations:

No member recommendations (contribute a recommendation)

( see more recommendations and anti-recommendations for this book )

Common KnowledgeShare what you know.

view history

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Series (with order)

Sloan Technology Series

Canonical Title

Original publication date

Important places

Los Alamos, NM

People/Characters

Awards and honors

Pulitzer Prize finalist (History, 1996)

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Book descriptions

Amazon.com (ISBN 0684824140, Paperback)

An engrossing history of the scientific discoveries, political maneuverings, and cold-war espionage leading to the creation of mankind's most destructive weapon.

Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book. Author Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his previous atomic tome, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.

(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:41:35 -0400)

(see all 2 descriptions)