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Dark Sun (Sloan Technology Series) (Paperback)

by Richard Rhodes (Author)

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Paperback: 736 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; 1st Simon & Schuster Pbk. Ed edition (1 Aug 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0684824140
ISBN-13: 978-0684824147
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Michael Beschloss, Los"Angeles Times[Dark Sun]" demonstrates the same ambition; literary skill; unrelenting research; talent for portraiture; understanding of the links between science, war and politics; willingness to stand up to large historical questions; and sound judgment that distinguished Richard Rhodes's 1988 book, "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." But this is the more important volume, not only because of its influence on the way we think about a half-century of world history, but because the hydrogen bomb continues to cast a shadow on the world today.

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Tells the story of the making of the H-bomb and reveals how it created a nuclear stalemate that lasted forty years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed yet absolutely gripping, 19 Jan 1997

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Rhodes' earlier "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" won a Pulitzer prize; I thought this was even better. The first part is an account of Soviet espionage into the Manhattan project; Rhodes lets us in on all the mundane details while allowing the inherent drama to come through in full force.

The second part was even more of a revelation: I never thought the nature of the "technically sweet" innovation that saved the H-bomb project would be revealed to the public during my lifetime, but it's spelled out here. I also never thought I'd understand in detail how an H-bomb works, but Rhodes makes it both comprehensible and fascinating.

Chapter 24 is the heart of the book--a description of the Mike shot, the world's first thermonuclear explosion. Don't start reading it if you have to go somewhere soon. A classic case of "I couldn't put it down".

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5.0 out of 5 stars A cautionary tale of espionage and physics, 3 Dec 2001

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This book succeeds in being many things to many people. It is a spy novel, as we follow the espionage twists and turns during the Manhattan Project. It is horror story, as chilling as any Hammer movie; we are told just how close the world came close to oblivion, before the Cuban missile crisis brought men to their senses. And it is a scientific exposition, in relative layman's terms, of how the physicists discovered the secret of the thermonuclear. Richard Rhodes' narrative keeps even technophobes hooked. The descriptions of how H-bomb tests exceeded even the anticipated yields are particularly chilling.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not as good as "The Making of the Atomic Bomb", 27 Sep 1998

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The title is a little deceptive. The development of the H-bomb doesn't start until the book is 3/4 over, most of the book covers the Soviet A-bomb program and the associated Soviet spies.

It's still a must read for students of the Cold War.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent and desperately sad
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