Fallout
Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
$27.89
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2019
Summary
Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would dominate the world over half a century, by building an atomic bomb and excluding their Russian allies. Peter Watson tells the pulse-pounding story of how two atomic physicists tried to counter this in two very different ways. While Niels Bohr sought to convince President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill to share their nuclear knowledge with Joseph …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471164514 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471164519 |
| Author: | Peter Watson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Peter Watson
Peter Watson is a journalist, television presenter and historian of ideas. He was a senior editor of the Sunday Times, New York correspondent of The Times and a columnist for the Observer. He has written for multiple publications, including the New York Times and Spectator. His books, which have been translated into more than 25 languages, include Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud, The German Genius, The French Mind and Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science.
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