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| #806502 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2006-10-31 | 2006-09-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.31 x6.13l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 432 pages | ||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The Cold War in a Nutshell|By Terry Sunday|Gerard J. DeGroot's "The Bomb: A Life" is one of the best single-volume histories I've read about the development of the atomic bomb and the effects the new weapon had on the world. In a conversational, highly readable style, DeGroot strikes a nearly perfect balance between describing the "nuts and bolts" of how nuclear weapons work an|From Publishers Weekly|It is by now an overly familiar story: a hitherto complacent American military is spurred into action by terrifying intelligence of Nazi scientific advances and fear that Hitler will have an atomic bomb first. Then come heroic countereffor
Bombs are as old as hatred itself. But it was the twentieth century--one hundred years of incredible scientific progress and terrible war--that brought forth the Big One, the Bomb, humanity's most powerful and destructive invention. In The Bomb: A Life, Gerard DeGroot tells the story of this once unimaginable weapon that--at least since 8:16 a.m. on August 6, 1945--has haunted our dreams and threatened our existence.
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Bomb: A Life | Gerard J. DeGroot.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
