Living on the Edge
R.W. Johnson: Nukes, 28 April 2011
Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49
by Jim Baggott.
Icon, 576 pp., £10.99, November 2009,978 1 84831 082 7 Show More
by Jim Baggott.
Icon, 576 pp., £10.99, November 2009,
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers and the Prospects for a World without Nuclear Weapons
by Richard Rhodes.
Knopf, 366 pp., $27.95, August 2010,978 0 307 26754 2 Show More
by Richard Rhodes.
Knopf, 366 pp., $27.95, August 2010,
Eliminating Nuclear Threats: A Practical Agenda for Global Policymakers
by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi.
ICNND, 294 pp., November 2009,978 1 921612 14 5 Show More
by Gareth Evans and Yoriko Kawaguchi.
ICNND, 294 pp., November 2009,
“... around in Siberian forests could be so nervously followed from space, a good place to start is Jim Baggott’s Atomic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb has been told countless times before, most notably by Richard Rhodes, but Baggott’s book is rare in giving details not just of the successful ... ”
