TY - BOOK AU - RHODES Richard TI - The making of the atomic bomb SN - 014014997X (pbk.) PY - 1988/// CY - London PB - Penguin Books KW - NUCLEAR ENERGY N2 - From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. This book provides a great deal of color about the actors, the politics, and public sentiments of a time very different from the present; and a series of complex events that led us to our current geopolitical situation ER -