The Curve of Binding Energy
#2437 of 3,809 books · #245 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
Theodore Taylor was one of the most brilliant engineers of the nuclear age, but in his later years he became concerned with the possibility of an individual being able to construct a weapon of mass destruction on their own. McPhee tours American nuclear institutions with Taylor and shows us how close we are to terrorist attacks employing homemade nuclear weaponry.
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- ISBN-13
- 9780374708610
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
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- Rising from the Plains (2011)0 wins · 4 score
- The Control of Nature (2011)0 wins · 3 score
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