Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
Dark Sun won the Pulitzer Prize. Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781439126479
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Hydrogen bomb developmentCold WarNuclear arms race
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for HistoryShortlistedMajor(1996)
Other awarded books from Richard Rhodes
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
- John James Audubon: The Making of an American
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