The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Rhodes, Richard
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Rhodes, Richard. Touchstone-Simon & Schuster: New York, 1986. Edition: First Touchstone Edition with full number line. (Not the true first.). ISBN: 0684813785. Trade Paperback, 886 pages. Red cover with black lettering; yellow band at the top indicating Pulitzer Prize winner; picture of mushroom cloud at the bottom. Illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs. Includes Notes, Bibliography, and Index.

Condition: Good Plus. Has a small gift inscription on first page and very minor wear to margins and corners. Major reason from the downgrade from "Very Good" is that the price on the back cover has been inked out.

Contents: Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. From the jacket

Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan.