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008			102710s1986 nyuaf b 001 0 eng
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050	0	0	_aQC773 _b.R46 1986
082	0	0	_a623.45 RHO
100	1		_aRhodes, Richard
245	1	4	_aThe making of the atomic bomb _c/ Richard Rhodes
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c1986.
300			_a886 p., [42] p. of plates _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 848-861).
520			_aAn extraordinary display of high scholarship. We commend S&S for publishing a book which would seem more acceptable to a university press than to a trade house. No competent adult library can do without Rhodes' splendid study (and need not at such a modest price). He devotes a large fraction of the book to the personalities and ideas that have created modern physics, then gets to the research and development of the actual devices. While The New World focused on the technical-political aspects of the project, this is technical- personal.
650		0	_aAtomic bomb _x--History
942			_cMO
999			_c260921 _d260921