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The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a history book written by the American journalist and historian Richard Rhodes, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1987. The book won multiple awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction .
Manhattan District The Trinity test of the Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. Active 1942–1946 Disbanded 15 August 1947 Country United States United Kingdom Canada Branch U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Garrison/HQ Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S. Anniversaries 13 August 1942 Engagements Allied invasion of Italy Allied invasion of France Allied invasion of ...
John Aristotle Phillips (born August 23, 1955) is a U.S. entrepreneur specializing in political campaigns, who became famous for attempting to design a nuclear weapon while a student, leading to him being dubbed The A-Bomb Kid by the media.
The first atomic bomb test by the Soviet Union in August 1949 came earlier than Americans expected, and over the next several months, there was an intense debate within the U.S. government, military, and scientific communities over whether to proceed with the development of the far more powerful, nuclear fusion–based hydrogen bomb, then known ...
It documented the development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project. [1] It contained video biographies of Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and Niels Bohr. It had illustrated essays that also documented Edward Teller, Lise Meitner, Leo Szilard, Hans Bethe, and Albert Einstein. [2] [3] [4]
The Los Alamos primer: the first lectures on How to build an atomic bomb. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-07576-5. Serber, Robert; Rhodes, Richard (2020). The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes (1 ed.). University of California Press.
Nguyet Anh Duong (Dương Nguyệt Ánh; born 1960) is an American scientist responsible for the creation of an American thermobaric weapon. [1]She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended the war with Afghanistan" by the Vietnamese American National Gala.
The Frisch–Peierls memorandum prompted Britain to create an atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys. Mark Oliphant, an Australian physicist working in Britain, was instrumental in making the results of the British MAUD Report known in the United States in 1941 by a visit in person. Initially the British project was larger and more advanced ...