Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb

by Brian Vandemark

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Nine men - Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, Compton - brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else the amazing workings of an invisible world. Some of them were fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories to create the world's first atomic bomb. At a secret laboratory in the mountains of northern New Mexico, they would crack the secret of the nuclear chain reaction and construct the most fearsome weapon mankind had ever known. Together they built a device that could...Read more
  • ISBN10 0759528071
  • ISBN13 9780759528079
  • Publish Date 1 June 2003
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Little Brown and Company
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 516
  • Language English