The Curve Of Binding Energy
by McPhee, John
Theodore Taylor was known as one of the most brilliant yet widely unknown engineers of the nuclear age. In his later years, he became concerned by the possibility of an individual able to create a weapon of mass destruction on their own. In this book, McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and reveals how close we are to terrorist attacks using homemade nuclear weaponry.
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This book was first published in 1974 by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York. Released in hardcover octavo, 231 pages, the dust jacket has black and white print, and boards in red/brown cloth with gold print.
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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1974. The text of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker. 232 pages. Prelims, endpages and edges lightly foxed. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. A journey into the awesome and alarming world of Theodore B Taylor, theoretical physicist and atomic scientist. Taylor's career began in 1949 in Los Alamos, continued through the spaceship Orion… Read more
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NY: Ballantine. (1975). The first Ballantine paperback edition. A lengthy profile of Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist who spent years working on an eventually-aborted project to develop a spaceship powered by exploding atomic bombs. In later years he became an expert in preventing the "diversion" of nuclear materials to help limit nuclear proliferation. McPhee's explication of the concepts of nuclear… Read more
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THE CURVE OF BINDING ENERGY
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