The Curve of Binding Energy - Hardcover

McPhee, John A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374133735 ISBN 13: 9780374133733

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1974

Synopsis

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.
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.

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Review:

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." --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

About the Author:

John McPhee is the author of twenty-six books, including Annals of the Former World, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1965 and lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0374133735
• ISBN 13: 9780374133733
• Binding: Hardcover