Jim Baggott

Atomic

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9781848319929
• ISBN-10: 1848319924
• Artikelnr.: 42608309

Autorenporträt

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).

Rezensionen

'I [have] read everything on the subject that I could lay my hands on, but I never read such a good, comprehensive account as Jim Baggott's... Highly recommended.' Reader's Digest