《The Making of the Atomic Bomb》 – 理查德·罗兹（Richard Rhodes）原子弹秘史-

《The Making of the Atomic Bomb》

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<The Making of the Atomic Bomb>—— 理查德·罗兹（Richard Rhodes）

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly—or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than twenty-five years. What began as merely an interesting speculative problem in physics grew into the Manhattan Project, and then into the bomb, with frightening rapidity, while scientists known only to their peers—Szilard, Teller, Oppenheimer, Bohr, Meitner, Fermi, Lawrence, and von Neumann—stepped from their ivory towers into the limelight. Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a narrative tour de force and a document with literary power commensurate with its subject.

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The 25th Anniversary version

非常好的一本书，语言流畅，介绍了很多物理史，尤其是原子物理

不但很好地简述了原子弹的原理与制造，而且还很详实地提供了各种环环相扣的背景知识（卢瑟福金箔实验科学背景，B-29战略轰炸这样的历史背景）。只可惜自己物理不好或者英文理解依旧薄弱，很多地方也只能看个大概，无法把作者的描述在脑子里想象出反应的过程和装置的构造。

波澜壮阔的世界核物理史。作者的文字在专业与通俗之间转换自如。

终于看完了！从第一章开始就喜欢这本书，以原子物理的发展为线索串联起不计其数的人物的视角，对群像的把握游刃有余；时间现场频繁出现的广角镜头和对整个社会的全景描写也显示出了作者的笔力，视角开阔，规模宏大。这两方面加在一起，让这本书能把人拉进去。然而它叙述的人文内涵又越来越深，随着原子弹的制造历程逐渐暴露出来，读到这样的段落时无法选择任何一方站住自己的立场，既为工程的进展而庆幸，又为其破坏力而惶恐，在不计其数的反复之后放下书的时候已经精疲力尽。

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理查德·罗兹（Richard Rhodes）

Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society\’s Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN.

He grasrcated from Yale University and has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, the National Endowment for the Arts 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. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.