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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1986
Pages
Pages 890

London, September 1933. Leo Szilard steps off the kerb on Southampton Row as the traffic light turns green, and in that single stride he sees how one neutron might split an atom and free two more, and those two free four, and the chain run away into a power no one has ever held.

Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes

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