The Bomb: A Life

The Bomb: A Life

by Gerard De Groot (Author)

Synopsis

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 02 Jun 2005

ISBN 10: 0712677488
ISBN 13: 9780712677486
Book Overview: An extraordinary, compelling account of the life and times of the atom bomb, from one of the UK's leading historians.

Author Bio
Born in California, Gerard DeGroot is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. He has written eight books on aspects of twentieth-century war, and is a regular columnist and reviewer for Scotland on Sunday.