Title: Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
Publisher: Icon Books
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1848319924
ISBN 13: 9781848319929
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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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).

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