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Zusatztext 'Atomic provides a popular but informed and compelling account of the international competition to produce atomic weapons.' Informationen zum Autor Jim Baggott is an award-winning science writer. A former academic chemist!he runs an independent management consultancy practice but maintains a broad interest in science! philosophy and history and continues to write on these subjects in his spare time! for! amongother publications! New Scientist magazine. His previous bookshave been widely acclaimed and include A Beginner's Guide to Reality (Penguin! 2005) and Beyond Measure: Modern Physics!Philosophy and the Meaning of Quantum Theory (OUP! 2004). Klappentext Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. Zusammenfassung Drawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives, Atomic presents a brilliant new account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon.
