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Curve of Binding Energy : A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor by John McPhee (1974, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374133735
ISBN-139780374133733
eBay Product ID (ePID)125994
Product Key Features
Book TitleCurve of Binding Energy : a Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPower Resources / Nuclear, Science & Technology
Publication Year1974
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJohn Mcphee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsA 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 . . . The report's art at its difficult best."Alvin Beam,The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer "Though 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, 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 . . . The report's art at its difficult best."-Alvin Beam, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer "Though 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, Though dwellers in the nuclear age should ponder this book, as much for its intellectual excitement as for its warning., 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 . . . The report's art at its difficult best." --Alvin Beam, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer "Though 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, "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 . . . The report's art at its difficult best." -- Alvin Beam, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer "Though 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, 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 . . . The report's art at its difficult best.
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SynopsisTheodore 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., 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.
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