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The Curve of Binding Energy

A Journey into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

Author: John McPhee

The Curve of Binding Energy

The Curve of Binding Energy

$11.99

About This Book

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.

Page Count
240
Genre
On Sale
04/01/2011

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374708610

In The News

“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

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The Curve of Binding Energy

The Curve of Binding Energy

$11.99