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The Curve of Binding Energy

Cover Image By John McPhee
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Our Item Code: curve
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232 Pages, Trade Paperback
Related listings: Atomic History
Date: 1974   Country of Origin: USA
    Added to Catalog: 12/16/96 (Revised 12/96)

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examines the life of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who miniaturized the atomic bomb, designed the largest-yield fission bomb ever detonated, proposed a nuclear-powered rocket engine, and later lobbied to prevent the growing threat of nuclear terrorism. "Curve" covers the construction of atomic bombs and offers insights into the evolution of nuclear industry and weapons developement and discusses safeguards for nuclear energy. -- tm

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"With his customary reportorial brilliance, John McPhee has written the story of the life and career of Theodore B. Taylor, a theoretical physicist who has been one of the most inventive nuclear scientists of our time. He miniaturized the atomic bomb, and also designed the largest-yield fission bomb that has ever been exploded. Subsequently, he led a scientific effort to build a nuclear-powered spaceship. But he later became convinced that weapons-grade Uranium and plutonium are alarmingly available to anyone who might wish to build a homemade bomb, and that such an undertaking would not be impossible, as some think. Taylor for many years has tried to effect improvements in the protection of nuclear materials, in the hope of averting their catastrophic use. McPhee's exploration of Taylor's world provides a timely look at a central aspect of the history of nuclear energy, and an assessment of one of its risks." --From the Publisher.

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"A book holding--with pretty good authority--that tens of thousands of people know enough about the bomb and are close enough to what they don't know to produce a bomb at home that might fizzle a little but still have the verve to knock down, say, the two great towers of the World Trade Center... The reporter's art at its difficult best." --Alvin Beam, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer

Thoughtful dwellers in the nuclear age should ponder this book, as much for its intellectual excitement as for its warning." --Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal

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