Fallout : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and the Political Science of the Atomic Bomb

Klappentext So! you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly required! and plutonium is definitely not included)! Fallout will bring you up to speed on the science and politics of the first nuclear gadgets. Like its companion volumes! the focus of Fallout is on the scientists themselves -- in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard! whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between the military! the government! and the beginnings of "big science." Zusammenfassung So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're inluck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degreein nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourselfmanual (assembly required, and plutonium is definitely not included), Falloutwill bring you up to speed on the science and politics of the first nucleargadgets. Like its companion volumes, the focus of Fallout is on thescientists themselves -- in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard,whose lives offer a cautionary tale about the uneasy alliance between themilitary, the government, and the beginnings of "big science."

Product details

• Authors: Various, Dan Wickline, John Paul Russ, Jim Ottaviani, Chris Kemple, Jim Ottaviani
• Assisted by: Steve Lieber (Illustration), Janine Johnston (Illustration), Joe Brusha (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.10.2001
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire
• EAN: 9780966010633
• ISBN: 978-0-9660106-3-3
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 16
• Dimensions (packing): 17.3 x 25.7 x 1.3 cm