Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes
First published in 1995 and now available in paperback, an account of the race to create the H-Bomb, revealing how and why it was made, and how its development has fundamentally affected the political history of the mid-20th century. Based on previously classified Soviet and American sources.
Richard Rhodes is the author or editor of twentytwo books, most recently the author of The Twilight of the Bomb, the last volume in a quartet about nuclear history. The first, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, won the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and a host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series. An affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, he lectures frequently to audiences in the United States and abroad.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780684804002 |
| ISBN 10 | 068480400X |
| Title | Dark Sun |
| Author | Richard Rhodes |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Year published | 1995-09-26 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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