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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes · 1986

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The definitive history of the Manhattan Project — a Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the scientific, political, and human story behind the most consequential weapon ever built.

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As for books I quit, I really wanted to like Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb but 200 pages in it was still boring and I stopped.

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