Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684824140
- ISBN 13
- 9780684824147
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About This Item
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Reading wear. Spine uncreased but lightly curved. Wear to corners and hinges. Creasing/bumping to lower portion of front cover. Not from a library. No remainder mark. 731 pages. Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book.
A brilliant, panoramic portrait of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
Synopsis
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
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- Title
- Dark Sun : The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
- Author
- Richard Rhodes
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684824140
- ISBN 13
- 9780684824147
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 731
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- history, military, atomic, nuclear, thermonuclear, bomb, weapon, engineering, physics, science, politics, espionage, intelligence, Cold War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science & Technology; History; Military and Defense; Intelligence & Espionage;
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