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The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb (Revolutions in Science) (Hardcover)

by Jeff Hughes (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd; First Edition edition (4 Nov 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1840463767
ISBN-13: 978-1840463767

Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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'I am become death, destroyer of worlds.' Robert J. Oppenheimer, Manhattan Project scientific director

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Established in 1942, the Manhattan Project brought together an international team of scientists in a top secret quest: beating the Nazis to the atomic bomb. Their 'Little Boy' and 'Fat Man' bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. In one terrible swoop humans could now kill potentially millions of fellow humans. It was the dawn of a new age - in war, in politics and, so Jeff Hughes deftly explains, in science.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Title Misnomer, 11 Feb 2003

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The book title is a misnomer, although discussion of the Manhattan project does occupy 3 of the 12 chapters, it is in no way what this book is about. A better title would have been “The Rise and Fall of Big Science in Small Scale Physics” as beside being a discourse on Big Science in the 20th century it is almost exclusively linked to particle physics and gives only the smallests of acknowledgements to the Human Genome Project and nothing more than a cursory mention to what is probably the biggest “Big Science” project, landing a man on the moon. Despite the criticisms of the title the text is well written and easy to read (I completed the 160 pages in a day reading intermittently), there is a definate lack of personalities in the text, although many famous science names are mentioned... The lack of depth in the names mentioned and next to no discussion of their personalities (saying someone was a good organiser hardly gives them a personality) means that this book has very little to offer above a magazine article on the state of particle physics.

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