Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

by Frank Close

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The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb

Although Henri Becquerel didn't know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that exposed the plates: it was the first documented evidence of spontaneous radioactivity. So began one of the most exciting and consequential...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1541605896

ISBN13:9781541605893

Release Date:June 2025

Publisher:Basic Books

Length:368 Pages

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